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Crookes tube

an early cathode-ray tube with a cathode, anode, and some low-pressure gas

Etymology: after Sir William Crookes

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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