Plücker tube

English

Etymology

Named after Julius Plücker, German physicist.

Noun

Plücker tube (plural Plücker tubes)

  1. A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases.
  2. A Crookes tube.
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