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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic electrodes nearly in contact so as to exhibit the insulating effects of a vacuum. It was used by the German physicist W. Hittorf (b. 1824).
- A Crookes tube.
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