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Hittorf Tube
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
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).
(2):
A Crookes tube.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hittorf Tube'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/h/hittorf-tube.html. 1828.