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crookes space, [After Sir William Crookes , English chemist, who first described it.].
The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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