cathode glow

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noun

a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.

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If only it began and ended with the warm glow of family love.
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In order to get the ghosts to glow, we had to do what was called a double burn.
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Charred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.
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Thus night fell, and darkness settled down about him, relieved only by the red glow of the logs smouldering on the hearth.
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As the bright glow of a little cascade of sparks pierced the darkness, a voice in our rear called sharply: "Hands up!"
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Very trim and strong, and confident he looked, with the glow of youth in his cheeks, and the spark of happiness in his gray eyes.
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The red glow was so brilliant that the whole river was tinged and made luminous by it.
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