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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hit·torf tube. Elec. (a) A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic electrodes nearly in contact so as to exhibit the insulating effects of a vacuum. It was used by the German physicist W. Hittorf (b. 1824). (b) A Crookes tube.
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