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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the rays, other than ordinary light-rays, described by Tommasina as being given off from an incandescent wire. They are said to produce ionization of the air, to discharge an electroscope, and to be of three sorts, possibly corresponding to the α-, β-, and γ-rays from radium.

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