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Crookes tubes

Crookes tubes is the plural of Crookes tube.

Meaning of Crookes tube

Noun

Crookes tube (plural Crookes tubes)

  1. An early experimental electrical discharge tube by means of which cathode rays and X-rays were discovered.

Questions about Crookes tubes

What is Crookes tubes the plural of?
Crookes tubes is the plural of Crookes tube.

Words near Crookes tubes in the dictionary

  1. Crookes radiometer
  2. Crookes radiometers
  3. Crookes space
  4. Crookes spaces
  5. Crookes tube
  6. Crookes tubes
  7. Crookes-Hittorf tube
  8. Crookes-Hittorf tubes
  9. Crookesian
  10. crookesite
  11. crookest

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