A gas-filled tube, also commonly known as a discharge tube or formerly as a Plücker tube, is an arrangement of electrodes in a gas within an insulating...
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Thyratron (redirect from Gas-filled relay)
A thyratron is a type of gas-filled tube used as a high-power electrical switch and controlled rectifier. Thyratrons can handle much greater currents...
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to one cathode surrounds it with an orange glow discharge. The tube is filled with a gas at low pressure, usually mostly neon and a small amount of argon...
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electrodes Gas-filled tube, an arrangement of electrodes in a gas This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Electron tube. If an internal...
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types; such as between alpha and beta particles. A G-M tube consists of a chamber filled with a gas mixture at a low pressure of about 0.1 atmosphere. The...
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electronic circuit valves or electron tubes are vacuum tubes. Gas-filled tubes are similar devices, but containing a gas, typically at low pressure, which...
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Krytron (category Gas-filled tubes)
cold-cathode gas-filled tube intended for use as a very high-speed switch, somewhat similar to the thyratron. It consists of a sealed glass tube with four...
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Dekatron (redirect from Three-phase gas counting tube)
generically three-phase gas counting tube or glow-transfer counting tube or cold cathode tube) is a gas-filled decade counting tube. Dekatrons were used...
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vacuum tubes or thermionic valves, and low-pressure gas-filled tubes, or discharge tubes. Before the advent of semiconductor devices, thousands of tube types...
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Cathode (redirect from Cathode (vacuum tube))
Cathodic protection Electrolysis Electrolytic cell Gas-filled tube Oxidation-reduction PEDOT Vacuum tube [1] Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine...
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the gas mixture. Single-ended self-starting lamps are insulated with a mica disc and contained in a borosilicate glass gas discharge tube (arc tube) and...
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Anode (section Vacuum tube anode)
current.[citation needed] In vacuum tubes or gas-filled tubes, the anode is the terminal where current enters the tube.[citation needed] The word was coined...
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Townsend discharge (category Electrical discharge in gases)
Townsend avalanche can have a large range of current densities. In common gas-filled tubes, such as those used as gaseous ionisation detectors, magnitudes of...
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Neutron generator (redirect from Sealed neutron tube)
tube is provided by glass and/or ceramic insulators. The neutron tube is, in turn, enclosed in a metal housing, the accelerator head, which is filled...
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these devices resemble vacuum tubes, but there are two main differences: Their glass envelopes are filled with a gas mixture, and They have a cold cathode;...
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Mercury-arc valve (category Gas-filled tubes)
current (AC) into direct current (DC). It is a type of cold cathode gas-filled tube, but is unusual in that the cathode, instead of being solid, is made...
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a Geiger–Müller tube. A low steady current can illustrate the gas spectrum in a gas-filled tube. A neon lamp is an example of a gas-discharge lamp, useful...
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Ignitron (redirect from Ignitron tube)
An ignitron is a type of gas-filled tube used as a controlled rectifier and dating from the 1930s. Invented by Joseph Slepian while employed by Westinghouse...
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Spark gap (category Gas-filled tubes)
arrangement of two conducting electrodes separated by a gap usually filled with a gas such as air, designed to allow an electric spark to pass between the...
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Fluorescent lamp (redirect from Fluorescent tube)
fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. An electric current in the gas excites...
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single-anode beam deflection tube for pulse generation up to 375 MHz; shock resistant up to 500 g EW60 – 700 VPIV, 400 mA, Gas-filled, half wave rectifier, B9G...
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A Geissler tube is a precursor to modern gas discharge tubes, demonstrating the principles of electrical glow discharge, akin to contemporary neon lights...
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Phototube (category Vacuum tubes)
phototube or photoelectric cell is a type of gas-filled or vacuum tube that is sensitive to light. Such a tube is more correctly called a 'photoemissive...
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boiling tube is a large test tube intended specifically for boiling liquids. A test tube filled with water and upturned into a water-filled beaker is...
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where the pilot heats a bimetallic element or a gas-filled tube to exert mechanical pressure to keep the gas valve open. If the pilot fails, the valve closes...
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the furnace, creating hot gas which boils water in the steam-generating tubes. In smaller boilers, additional generating tubes are separate in the furnace...
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New York, and declaring it an IEEE Historic Milestone. An earlier gas-filled tube device called a thyratron provided a similar electronic switching capability...
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Crossatron (category Gas-filled tubes)
modulator device that consists of a cold cathode gas-filled tube that combines features of thyratrons, vacuum tubes, and power semiconductor switches. This switch...
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scanners) are protected by shielding. Arcing horns Avalanche diode Gas-filled tube Lightning rod Metal-oxide varistor Spark gap Transient-voltage-suppression...
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Flashtube (redirect from Flash tube)
for a very short time. A flashtube is a glass tube with an electrode at each end and is filled with a gas that, when triggered, ionizes and conducts a...
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