cathode rays
Britishplural noun
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When the electrode was heated, it would shoot cathode rays across the chamber toward the sphere.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
He verified the negative charge of the cathode rays with both magnetic and electric fields.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Thomson showed that cathode rays have negative electric charge, being deflected by electric and magnetic fields, and he concluded that they were in fact streams of particles.
From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2015
Philipp Lenard, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on cathode rays, wrote a four-volume treatise on the one true science and called it “German Physics.”
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012
M. Villard calls them magneto-cathode rays, and according to M. Fortin these rays may be ordinary cathode rays, but of very slight velocity.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
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