Crookes
[kruks]
Definition
(noun.) English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919).
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Examples
- Discovery of Neon and Metargon by Ramsey and Travers; Coronium by Nasini; Xenon by Ramsey; Monium by Crookes, and Etherion by Brush. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Thallium discovered by Crookes, and Indium by Reich and Richter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Crookes, published his extensive researches in electrical discharges as manifested in glass tubes from which the air had been exhausted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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