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Plücker tube

Plücker tube noun: 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.

Noun

Plücker tube (plural Plücker tubes)

  1. 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.
  2. A Crookes tube.

Forms of Plücker tube

pluralPlücker tubes

Origin of Plücker tube

Named after Julius Plücker, German physicist.

Questions about Plücker tube

What does Plücker tube mean?
Plücker tube means 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.
What part of speech is Plücker tube?
Plücker tube is a noun.
What is the plural of Plücker tube?
The plural of Plücker tube is Plücker tubes.

Words near Plücker tube in the dictionary

  1. Plücker embeddings
  2. Plücker matrices
  3. Plücker matrix
  4. Plücker relation
  5. Plücker relations
  6. Plücker tube
  7. Plücker tubes
  8. Plăieșii de Jos
  9. Plătărești
  10. pm
  11. PM2.5

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