Associations to the word «Crookes»
Noun
- Cathode
- Katie
- Fay
- Chemist
- Tube
- Physicist
- Vacuum
- Wil
- Florence
- Sheffield
- Enquiry
- Cook
- Faraday
- Clique
- Vane
- Phenomenon
- Balfour
- William
- Auguste
- Accomplice
- Discharge
- Experiment
- Bulb
- Ionization
- Phantom
- Cox
- Liam
- Medium
- Fraud
- Myers
- Ray
- Apparatus
- Electrode
- Lodge
- Saucer
- Writings
- Wallace
- Uranium
- Eva
- Crawford
- Scientist
- Schuster
- Doyle
- Coil
- Mina
- Sir
- Fertilizer
- Nichols
- Brock
- Electron
- Dave
- Oliver
- Wilhelm
- Derek
- Spiritual
- Eliza
- Trance
- Biographer
- Cromwell
- Inventor
- Barrett
- Stein
- Wiley
- Investigator
- Atom
- Manifestation
- Jason
- Laboratory
- Schmidt
- Thomson
- Investigation
- Home
- Feat
- Precaution
- Claude
- Bull
- Norman
- Annie
- Trevor
Adjective
Wiktionary
CROOKES, proper noun. A surname.
CROOKES LAYER, noun. Synonym of Crookes space.
CROOKES RADIOMETER, noun. Light mill
CROOKES RADIOMETERS, noun. Plural of Crookes radiometer
CROOKES SPACE, noun. (physics) (dated) 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.
CROOKES TUBE, noun. An early experimental electrical discharge tube by means of which cathode rays and X-rays were discovered.
CROOKES TUBES, noun. Plural of Crookes tube
Dictionary definition
CROOKES, noun. English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919).
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.