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Definition of Crookes tube
1. Noun. The original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube.
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
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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