Associations to the word «Plucker»
Wiktionary
PLUCKER, noun. One who plucks.
PLUCKER, noun. A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.
PLÜCKER TUBE, noun. A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases.
PLÜCKER TUBE, noun. A Crookes tube.
PLÜCKER TUBES, noun. Plural of Plücker tube
Wise words
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