Geissler Tube Definition

gīslər
noun
A glass tube having two electrodes and containing a gas which, when electrified, takes on a luminous glow of a color characteristic of the gas: used in spectroscopy, etc.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Geissler Tube

Noun

Singular:
Geissler tube
Plural:
geissler-tubes

Origin of Geissler Tube

  • After Heinrich Geissler, who invented it in 1857.

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