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Laboratory Glassware: Discharge Tube

Inventory Number 18811


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Item type
Object
Provenance
Magdalen College School
Dimensions
Diameter: 36mm Height: 654mm Weight: 0.2kg
Inventory No
18811
Accession Number
1969-60/32

Description

A long glass sealed tube of uniform thickness that terminates on either end with metal electrodes connected to copper alloy wires that go from inside to outside the tube.