vacuum tube
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Yet another is a human-controlled device that uses a vacuum tube to suck up the apples.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
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
To measure this force within their vacuum tube, the researchers will suspend two samples made of different materials from a two-meter-tall, 1.50-meter-wide balance and induce the Casimir effect within one.
From Scientific American • Apr. 29, 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
