English Explanatory Dictionary

Geissler tube

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An early gas discharge tube used to demonstrate the principles of electrical glow discharge.

Word forms

Geissler tube Geissler tubes

Etymology

After Heinrich Geissler, who invented it in 1857.

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