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Crookes Tube

Webster's Dictionary

A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; - so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Crookes Tube'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/crookes-tube.html. 1828.