add. ·- a crookes tube.
2. hittorf tube ·add. ·- 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).
add. ·- a crookes tube.
2. hittorf tube ·add. ·- 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).
Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012