"Crookes Tube" is a word in ENGLISH
A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a
very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects;
-- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.
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