Crookes

[ krooks ]

/ krʊks /

noun

Sir William, 1832–1919, English chemist and physicist: discovered the element thallium and the cathode ray.

Words nearby Crookes

Cronyn, crook, crookback, crooked, crookery, Crookes, Crookes dark space, Crooke's granule, Crooke's hyaline degeneration, crookesite, Crookes lens

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Example sentences from the Web for Crookes

I thought I would not reproduce these photographs here, because they did not seem to me to have come from Mr. Crookes himself.
Mysterious Psychic Forces|Camille Flammarion
Fig. 220 shows a Crookes tube fitted with a metal plate, so that the cathode rays coming from C will strike it.
Things a Boy Should Know About Electricity|Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John
Crookes has represented this experiment by a sketch in his memoir upon this subject.
Mysterious Psychic Forces|Camille Flammarion
Crookes his ordinary, in those parsimonious dayes, had not a Capons-leg to throw at a dog.
Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets|Various

Crookes attributed these rays to a very subtile matter charged with electricity and moving with a very great velocity.
The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method|Henri Poincar

British Dictionary definitions for Crookes

Crookes

/ (krʊks) /

noun

Sir William. 1832–1919, English chemist and physicist: he investigated the properties of cathode rays and invented a type of radiometer and the lens named after him

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Scientific definitions for Crookes

Crookes

[ kruks ]

Sir William 1832-1919

British chemist and physicist who discovered thallium in 1861 and invented the radiometer (1873-76). He also developed the Crookes tube, a modified vacuum tube that was later used by W.C. Roentgen and J.J. Thomson in experiments that led to the discovery of x-rays and the electron, respectively.

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释义	Crookes [ krooks ] / krʊks / noun Sir William, 1832–1919, English chemist and physicist: discovered the element thallium and the cathode ray. Words nearby Crookes Cronyn, crook, crookback, crooked, crookery, Crookes, Crookes dark space, Crooke's granule, Crooke's hyaline degeneration, crookesite, Crookes lens Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for Crookes I thought I would not reproduce these photographs here, because they did not seem to me to have come from Mr. Crookes himself. Mysterious Psychic Forces\|Camille Flammarion Fig. 220 shows a Crookes tube fitted with a metal plate, so that the cathode rays coming from C will strike it. Things a Boy Should Know About Electricity\|Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John Crookes has represented this experiment by a sketch in his memoir upon this subject. Mysterious Psychic Forces\|Camille Flammarion Crookes his ordinary, in those parsimonious dayes, had not a Capons-leg to throw at a dog. Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets\|Various Crookes attributed these rays to a very subtile matter charged with electricity and moving with a very great velocity. The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method\|Henri Poincar British Dictionary definitions for Crookes Crookes / (krʊks) / noun Sir William. 1832–1919, English chemist and physicist: he investigated the properties of cathode rays and invented a type of radiometer and the lens named after him Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Scientific definitions for Crookes Crookes [ kruks ] Sir William 1832-1919 British chemist and physicist who discovered thallium in 1861 and invented the radiometer (1873-76). He also developed the Crookes tube, a modified vacuum tube that was later used by W.C. Roentgen and J.J. Thomson in experiments that led to the discovery of x-rays and the electron, respectively. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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