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

Thomson showed that cathode rays have negative electric charge, being deflected by electric and magnetic fields, and he concluded that they were in fact streams of particles.

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

It may be, again, that in certain regions of the tube cathode rays are met with diffused by some solid object, without having thereby changed their nature.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien