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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Elec.) A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also
Plücker tube , from the German physicist who devised it.
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- noun An early
gas discharge tube used todemonstrate theprinciples of electrical glow discharge.
Etymologies
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After Heinrich Geissler, who invented it in 1857.
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