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noun

Hittorf tube n. (Elec.)

(a)

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).

(b)

A Crookes tube.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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