crookes tube

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   the original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube

   Broadercathode-ray tube

Questions about crookes tube

What does crookes tube mean?

crookes tube means "the original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube".

Is crookes tube a common word?

crookes tube is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.