A trademark for: a type of television camera tube similar to a vidicon, but in which the photoconductive layer of the signal plate is of lead monoxide.
Origin
1960s. From classical Latin plumbum lead + -icon.
Definition of Plumbicon in US English:
Plumbicon
nounˈplʌmbɪkɒn
Television historical
A trademark for: a type of television camera tube similar to a vidicon, but in which the photoconductive layer of the signal plate is of lead monoxide.