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Hittorf Tube

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(1):

A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic electrodes nearly in contact so as to exhibit the insulating effects of a vacuum. It was used by the German physicist W. Hittorf (b. 1824).

(2):

A Crookes tube.

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