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Crookes tube
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English
Etymology
After Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist, one of its inventors.
Noun
An early experimental electrical discharge tube by means of which cathode rays and X-rays were discovered.
en Crookes-Hittorf tube
en Hittorf tube
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