vacuum tube
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For a time, it used 5 million volts of electricity to shoot hydrogen nuclei down a vacuum tube at up to 100 million miles an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
In the last century, our capacity to store and process data has soared, with electronics marching from the vacuum tube to the transistor to today’s semiconductor chips.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023
It accelerates electrons within a long vacuum tube to high energy and near–light-speed, while magnets steer them around the ring.
From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023
At the bank drive-through, they watched endorsed checks whoosh through the vacuum tube toward the teller waiting at the window.
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023
If you put a million volts into a vacuum tube, you could be sure only of blasting the tube to bits.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
