English Explanatory Dictionary

Crookes tube

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An early experimental electrical discharge tube by means of which cathode rays and X-rays were discovered.

Word forms

Crookes tube Crookes tubes

Etymology

After Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist, one of its inventors.

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