COOLIDGE TUBE


Meaning of COOLIDGE TUBE in English

Physics.

a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.

[ 1910-15, Amer.; named after William D. Coolidge (1873-1975), U.S. physicist and chemist who devised it ]

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