Definition of Crookes tube

1. Noun. The original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube.

Generic synonyms: Cathode-ray Tube, Crt

Definition of Crookes tube

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crookes Tube

Cromwellians
Cronartium
Cronartium ribicola
Crone
Cronenbergian
Crones
Cronos
Cronus
Crooke's granules
Crooke's hyaline change
Crooke's hyaline degeneration
Crookes
Crookes-Hittorf tube
Crookes radiometer
Crookes tube (current term)
Cropper
Crosby
Crosby capsule
Cross
Crossopterygii
Crotalaria sagitallis
Crotalaria spectabilis
Crotalidae
Crotalus adamanteus
Crotalus antitoxin
Crotalus atrox
Crotalus cerastes
Crotalus horridus atricaudatus
Crotalus horridus horridus

Literary usage of Crookes tube

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1897)
"The masses of extremely rarefied air, situated respectively in the Crookes tube and in the cylindrical tube, constitute the two surfaces of a Leyden jar, ..."

2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1897)
"A few years ago Lenard showed that if a piece of thin aluminium foil took the place of part of the glass of a Crookes tube certain rays, the so-called ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1903)
"Crookes has shown many notable experiments in which substances have been caused to phosphoresce inside of the Crookes' tube by the molecular bombardment of ..."

4. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1896)
"Such a tube is called a Crookes tube. 496. Cathode rays. — If an object of any kind is placed in a Crookes tube, it is found to cast a sharp shadow (ie a ..."

5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1897)
"The masses of extremely rarefied air, situated respectively in the Crookes tube and in the cylindrical tube, constitute the two surfaces of a Leyden jar, ..."

6. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1897)
"A few years ago Lenard showed that if a piece of thin aluminium foil took the place of part of the glass of a Crookes tube certain rays, the so-called ..."

7. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1903)
"Crookes has shown many notable experiments in which substances have been caused to phosphoresce inside of the Crookes' tube by the molecular bombardment of ..."

8. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1896)
"Such a tube is called a Crookes tube. 496. Cathode rays. — If an object of any kind is placed in a Crookes tube, it is found to cast a sharp shadow (ie a ..."

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