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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Crookes tube

/(kr??ks" t?b`)/ · Crookes· tube · IPA
01 A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called fr…
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    A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.(Phys.)