Crookes tube
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Crookes tube
[′kru̇ks ‚tüb] (electronics)
An early form of low-pressure discharge tube whose cathode was a flat aluminum disk at one end of the tube, and whose anode was a wire at one side of the tube, outside the electron stream; used to study cathode rays.
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