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  x-ray tube

  noun

  an electronic tube for producing x-rays, essentially a cathode-ray tube in which a metal target is bombarded with high-energy electrons.
• X-ray tube
  X-ray tube

  noun

  an evacuated tube containing a metal target onto which is directed a beam of electrons at high energy for the generation of X-rays

x-ray tube

American  

noun

1. an electronic tube for producing x-rays, essentially a cathode-ray tube in which a metal target is bombarded with high-energy electrons.

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X-ray tube British  

noun

1. an evacuated tube containing a metal target onto which is directed a beam of electrons at high energy for the generation of X-rays

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Etymology

Origin of x-ray tube

First recorded in 1905–10

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The kinetic energy of an electron accelerated in an x-ray tube is 100 keV.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

Figure 32.10 A lead apron is placed over the dental patient and shielding surrounds the x-ray tube to limit exposure to tissue other than the tissue that is being imaged.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

Figure 29.14 shows the spectrum of x rays obtained from an x-ray tube.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

There are two processes by which x rays are produced in the anode of an x-ray tube.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

The most remarkable demonstration of this is seen in the x-ray tube.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly

Using an industrial computed tomography scanner, which is sort of like an MRI machine but with a rotating X-ray tube, the researchers blasted the Cratonavis skull with 150 kilovolts of beam energy.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2023

Electrons in an X-ray tube are accelerated through 1.00×102 kV and directed toward a target to produce X- rays.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

Lauritsen produced the first 1,000,000-volt X-ray tube, and Carl Anderson won a Nobel Prize for discovering the positron.

From Time Magazine Archive

Produces first practical X-ray tube, laying foundation for medical-technology division.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of these projects, he identified two—Sloan’s X-ray tube and the accelerator, not yet known as the cyclotron—as “rather spectacular and important in their early developments.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik