CROOKES

Meaning of CROOKES in English

Pronunciation: ' kru ̇ ks

Function: biographical name

Sir William 1832-1919 Eng. physicist & chem.

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CROOKES — biographical name Sir William 1832-1919 English physicist & chemist
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CROOKES — /krooks/ , n. Sir William , 1832-1919, English chemist and physicist: discovered the element thallium and the cathode ray.
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CROOKES — biographical name Sir William 1832-1919 English physicist & chemist
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CROOKES — Crookes BrE AmE krʊks § \ kruːks
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CROOKES TUBE — noun Usage: usually capitalized C Etymology: after Sir Wm. Crookes : a vacuum tube evacuated to a pressure of about …
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CROOKES GLASS — noun Usage: usually capitalized C Etymology: after Sir Wm. Crookes : one of several types of glass designed to diminish …
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CROOKES DARK SPACE — ˈkru̇ks- noun Usage: usually capitalized C Etymology: after Sir William Crookes died 1919 English physicist physics : a dark space …
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CROOKES TUBE — () A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a …
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CROOKES SPACE — () The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure …
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CROOKES TUBE — A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct …
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CROOKES TUBE — Electronics. a form of cathode-ray tube. [ 1880-85; after Sir W. CROOKES ]
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CROOKES RADIOMETER — Optics. radiometer (def. 1). [ 1880-85; after Sir W. CROOKES ]
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CROOKES DARK SPACE — Physics. the dark space between the cathode glow and the negative glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure …
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CROOKES TUBE — a vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct …
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CROOKES SPACE — add. ·- the dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the …
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CROOKES, SIR WILLIAM — born June 17, 1832, London, Eng. died April 4, 1919, London British chemist and physicist noted for his discovery of …
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MOIST — I. ˈmȯist adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English moiste, from Middle French, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin muscidus, alteration (probably …
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GLOW — I. ˈglō verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English glowen, from Old English glōwan; akin to Old High German gluoen …
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NEGATIVE GLOW — noun : a narrow luminous region that occurs in an electrical discharge in a gas at low pressure (as in …
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DARK SPACE — noun : any of several regions or layers in the visible-glow discharge of a gas-filled cold-cathode electron tube that remain …
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CROOKESITE — ˈkru̇kˌsīt noun ( -s ) Etymology: French, from Sir Wm. Crookes + French -ite : a mineral (Cu,Tl,Ag) 2 Se …
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CATHODE GLOW — noun : a thin layer of luminosity immediately surrounding the cathode in a Crookes tube
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CATHODE DARK SPACE — noun : crookes dark space
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VICTORIUM — (n.) A probable chemical element discovered by Sir William Crookes in 1898. Its nitrate is obtained byy practical decomposition and …
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PLUCKER TUBE — () Crookes tube.
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HITTORF TUBE — () A Crookes tube.
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RADIOMETER — — radiometric /ray'dee oh me"trik/ , adj. — radiometry , n. /ray'dee om"i teuhr/ , n. 1. Also called Crookes …
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NEGATIVE GLOW — Physics. the luminous region between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when …
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CROOKESITE — /krook"suyt/ , n. a rare mineral, selenide of copper, thallium, and silver, (Cu, Tl, Ag) 2 Se, occurring in steel-gray, …
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CATHODE GLOW — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the …
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THALLIUM — (Tl), chemical element, metal of main Group IIIa, or boron group, of the periodic table, poisonous, chiefly univalent, and of …
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RADIOMETER — instrument for detecting or measuring radiant energy. The term is applied in particular to devices used to measure infrared radiation. …
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