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Crookes tube is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CROOKES TUBE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Crookes tube

Crookes tube

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 container 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 are projected in straight lines from the cathode. It was used by Crookes, Johann Hittorf, Julius Plücker, Eugen Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard and others to discover the properties of cathode rays, culminating in J.J. Thomson's 1897 identification of cathode rays as negatively charged particles, which were later named electrons. Crookes tubes are now used only for demonstrating cathode rays. Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays using the Crookes tube in 1895. The term is also used for the first generation, cold cathode X-ray tubes, which evolved from the experimental Crookes tubes and were used until about 1920. Power off. Without magnet, rays travel straight.

Definition of Crookes tube in the English dictionary

The definition of Crookes tube in the dictionary is a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CROOKES TUBE

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Synonyms and antonyms of Crookes tube in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Crookes tube» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CROOKES TUBE

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Translator English - Chinese

克鲁克斯管
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tubo de Crookes
570 millions of speakers

English

Crookes tube
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्रूक्स ट्यूब
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أنبوب كروكس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Крукс трубка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tubo de Crookes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্রুসি টিউব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Crookes Tube
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tiub Crookes
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Crookes Tube
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

クルックス管
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

룩스 관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tabung cedok
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Crookes ống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குரூக்ஸ் குழாய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रुक ट्यूब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Crookes tüpü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tubo di Crookes
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rura Crookes
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Крукс трубка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tub Crookes
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Crookes σωλήνα
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Crookes buis
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Crookes röret
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Crookes tube
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Crookes tube

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CROOKES TUBE»

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The Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary, Second Edition
discharge glow on the outside. Outside the negative glow is another region called the Faraday Dark Space. See Faraday Dark Space. Crookes tube A simple experimental tube developed by William Crookes in the 1870s for studying electrical ...
J.K. Petersen, 2002
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Vacuum Tube Displays: Cathode Ray Tube, Trinitron, Crookes ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, Books Llc, 2010
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William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science
In another brilliantly conceived experimental demonstration that demanded all of Gimingham's skills as a glass-blower, he embedded two aluminium electrodes at one end of a Crookes tube. A third electrode was placed at the tube's other end.
William Hodson Brock, 2008
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Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists
From Crookes Tube t0 Coolidge X-Ray Tube Rontgen's discovery of X rays in November 1895 ranks among the most important scientific discoveries of all times and no scientific discovery has ever become as rapidly and widely known as did ...
Ervin B. Podgorsak, 2010
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Gaseous Electronics
It was not until Wilhelm Conrad Rentgen, using a common type of Crookes tube, made the remarkable discovery of x rays in 1895, and Antoine Henri Becquerel's discovery of radioactive radiation from uranium a year later, that the particular ...
Merle Hirsh, 1978
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Principles of Modern Chemistry
FiG U R E 1.8 A Crookes tube. (a) The Crookes tube is a glass cylinder that is evacuated and then filled with different gases to study the properties of glow discharges. A discharge is established when voltages are applied between the cathode ...
David Oxtoby, H. Gillis, Alan Campion, 2011
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From X-rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology
The Crookes tube, as it became known, also supported numerous experiments as it was relatively inexpensive to make and performed reliably. Some 30 years after the development of the Crookes tube, now a mature technology, Wilhelm ...
W. David Lee, David W. Lee, 2013
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Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary
Crookes Tube The Crookes tube was an important experimental electron tube that was used by William Crookes beginning in 1870s, and later by other scientists, to research voltage levels and electromagnetic radiation. It also contributed to ...
J.K. Petersen, 2002
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The Basics of Chemistry
William Crookes (1832-1919) observed a faint greenish glow and beam using his own discharge tubes called Crookes tube. Crookes noted that the beam in his tubes originated from the cathode, and hence, the beams became The Atom 35 ...
Richard Myers, 2003
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Peripheral Endovascular Interventions
On November 8, 1895, Roentgen was working in his laboratory in Wurzburg University and was completely enclosing his Crookes' tube with black photographic paper to visualize the effects of the cathode rays. A plate of fluorescent material ...
Thomas J. Fogarty, Rodney A. White, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CROOKES TUBE»

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Master of electrons and photons
... weeks prior to Röntgen's famous announcement, while photographing Mark Twain using a Geissler tube (a predecessor to the Crookes tube) ... «Nature.com, May 15»
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The Mysterious X
Modern x-ray production methods also help us understand what was going on in Röntgen's Crookes tube: he used a hot cathode to produce ... «Royal Society of Chemistry, May 15»
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X-Rays at War, 1915
J, inductor; K, cable ; M, motor ; R, case for the X-ray tube (the Crookes tube); Rf, reflector; S, switchboard ; W, contact-breaker. Image: Scientific ... «Scientific American, Jan 15»
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How playing with dangerous x-rays led to the discovery of radiation …
Grubbé had all of these devices, including the important Crookes tube, on his workbench. As a result, he was able to reproduce Röntgen's work ... «PBS NewsHour, Jan 15»
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Press X for the unknown
Roentgen was conducting experiments with Crookes tube in his laboratory. His experiment included evacuating a glass bulb and filling it with a ... «The Hindu, Jan 15»
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... physicist Wilhelm Rontgen was experimenting with the fashionable electrical gadget of his timethe highvoltage vacuum or Crookes tube.th ed ... «Wondering Sound, Dec 14»
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... those of the Crookes tube especially of areas deep within the body. [url=http://genonlinepharmacy.com/glucophage.html]glucophage[/url] The ... «Wondering Sound, Dec 14»
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9 Things You May Not Know About Nikola Tesla
... called a Crookes tube. When Tesla reviewed the resulting photographic negative, he found it splotchy and spotted and decided it was ruined. «History, Sep 14»
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Remembering the true value of knowledge
In 1895, Röntgen performed a series of experiments with something called a Hittorf-Crookes tube, a glass container best described as a ... «The Conversation, Mar 14»
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'Which inventions were created by accident?'
When German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book ... «The Independent, Jan 14»

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