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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Geissler tube | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Geissler tube \Geis"sler tube`\ (Elec.) A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also {Pl[81]cker tube}, from the German physicist who devised it. | |
