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
The speed never depends on the nature of the gas contained in the Crookes tube, but varies with the value of the fall of potential at the cathode.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien
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
The same language is spoken by the forms in which the luminous phenomena appear at the two poles of a Crookes tube.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
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