(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:48:58

Crookes" tube` (kr??ks" t?b`). Phys.

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.

 

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