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Crookesian

Crookesian adjective: of or relating to Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist who worked on spectroscopy and was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube.

Adjective

Crookesian (comparative more Crookesian, superlative most Crookesian)

  1. Of or relating to Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist who worked on spectroscopy and was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube.
    • Thomson promoted the Crookesian view of cathode rays as particulate against the apparent counterevidence presented by Phillip Lenard that such particles were not stopped by an encounter with metal[…]2004, Jed Z. Buchenwald, Andrew Warwick, Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics, page 107

Forms of Crookesian

comparativemore Crookesian
superlativemost Crookesian

Origin of Crookesian

From Crookes + -ian.

Questions about Crookesian

What does Crookesian mean?
Crookesian means of or relating to Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist who worked on spectroscopy and was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube.
What part of speech is Crookesian?
Crookesian is an adjective.

Words near Crookesian in the dictionary

  1. Crookes spaces
  2. Crookes tube
  3. Crookes tubes
  4. Crookes-Hittorf tube
  5. Crookes-Hittorf tubes
  6. Crookesian
  7. crookesite
  8. crookest
  9. crooketh
  10. crookfingered
  11. crookheaded

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