Crookes tube


nounElectronics.
  1. a form of cathode-ray tube.

Origin of Crookes tube

1
First recorded in 1880–85; after Sir W. Crookes

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Crookes tube

noun
  1. a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas

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