gas tube

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of gas tube

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

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gas tube

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

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)

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

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

Laboriously he and Manuel advanced with the gas tube.

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

I then pinch the gas tube to extinguish the flame, allow the gas to pass as before, and so blow a mixture of unburnt air and gas into the fuel.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various