cathode rays

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When the electrode was heated, it would shoot cathode rays across the chamber toward the sphere.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

He verified the negative charge of the cathode rays with both magnetic and electric fields.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Lenard was given the prize in 1905 for his studies of cathode rays, the “radiation” emitted from hot metals.

From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2015

Philipp Lenard, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on cathode rays, wrote a four-­volume treatise on the one true science and called it “German Physics.”

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012

Although they are all formed of identical electrons, there may be various cathode rays, because the velocity is not exactly the same for all electrons.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien