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Crookes radiometer
Crookes radiometer
noun
- physics a type of radiometer consisting of an evacuated glass bulb containing a set of lightweight vanes, each blackened on one side. The vanes are mounted on a vertical axis and revolve when light, or other radiant energy, falls on them
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Origin of Crookes radiometer1
First recorded in 1880–85; after Sir W. Crookes
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Ditto for the Crookes Radiometer, which MoMA also just began selling.
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It is a sort of differential bombardment of the gas molecules on the two faces of a dust particle somewhat analogous to the action on Mr. Crookes' radiometer vanes.
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