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gas tube

American  

noun

  1. an electron tube the envelope of which contains a highly rarefied gas.


Etymology

Origin of gas tube

First recorded in 1805–15

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A brush flame from the larger gas tube of the single blowpipe table is most suitable for the work of bending the tubes.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard

Might be one of those gas-discharge curves, if the gas tube happened to be defective.

From The Romantic Analogue by Skupeldyckle, W.W.

Only one of us must risk taking the gas tube any nearer the enemy.

From The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds by Weiss, George Henry

Planes.—Horizontal: a gas tube bent horizontally round the tail.

From Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 by Various

To collect the gas, raise the nitrometer off the rubber stopper, and place the gas tube from the decomposition apparatus in the glass dish W and under the opening of the nitrometer.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)

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