Excitron

excitron

[′ek·sə‚trän]

(electronics)

A single-anode mercury-pool tube provided with means for maintaining a continuous cathode spot.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Excitron

 

a controlled mercury-arc rectifier (in the Soviet Union, usually multianode) with a cathode spot that, once initiated, is maintained continuously by an excitation anode. Excitrons are used in equipment such as high-power rectifiers.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.