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
His visit was merely for the purpose of gathering some apparatus, which included a Crookes tube, carefully packed, a rheostat, and some other paraphernalia which we divided.
From The Treasure-Train by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
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
In taking this photograph the experiment was tried of using a diaphragm interposed between the Crookes tube and the plate; and the superior clearness obtained is thought to result from this.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 by Various
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