thermionic
Britishadjective
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He followed up with a more detailed piece in Wireless World that October, envisioning “space-stations” that relied on thermionic valves serviced by an onboard crew supplied by atomic-powered rockets.
From Nature ● Jan. 17, 2017
Ordinary thermionic tubes generate electrons by boiling them from a hot filament.
From Time Magazine Archive
The device that may change the world's means of making power: a small "thermionic converter" that now turns about 9% of its heat energy into electricity, may eventually convert up to 30%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above the mantel of the lodge's thermionic fireplace was hung a brilliant cascading stereo of Yosemite Falls in misty motion.
From Deepfreeze by Robert Donald Locke
Essentially, ultraminiaturized ceramic-to-metal-seal vacuum tubes running off thermionic generators.
From Industrial Revolution by Poul William Anderson
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