(definition) by Webster 1913 Sat Jan 21 2006 at 17:08:34

Plück"er tube (?). [So named after Julius Plücker, a German physicist.] (Physics)

(a)

A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases.

(b)

Crookes tube.

 

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