Crookes tube
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Crookes tube
First recorded in 1880–85; after Sir W. Crookes
Example Sentences
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Grubbe simply positioned the Crookes tube over the tumor and turned on the electric current for a few minutes, with little understanding of what would be the appropriate dose.
From Slate ● May 4, 2016
The Crookes tube, refined in mechanism, is the common x-ray tube of today, useful to physicists, metallurgists, biologists, doctors, dentists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Physicists did not take long to discover that the radiation from radium was very like the radiation in a "Crookes tube."
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
The Crookes tube became one of the toys of science—and the lamp of other investigators.
From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph
The whole party began to look uneasy and gazed apprehensively at the huge Crookes tube which still stood in its supporting frame on the table.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Bates, Harry
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