Crookes tube
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crookes-tube-167-17085155
title:
Crookes tube
text:
A Crookes tube is an early experimental electrical discharge tube, with partial vacuum, invented by English physicist William Crookes and others around 1869–1875, in which cathode rays, streams of electrons, were discovered. Developed from the earlier Geissler tube, the Crookes tube consists of a partially evacuated glass bulb of various shapes, with two metal electrodes, the cathode and the anode, one at either end. When a high voltage is applied between the electrodes, cathode rays (electrons)
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Early type of cathode ray tube
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_tube
date created:
2005-05-23T21:45:18Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T15:12:00Z
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