radiant-matter

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The tubes contain no inside electrodes with the residual gaseous molecules; and with them I will proceed to give some of the most striking radiant-matter experiments without any inner metallic poles at all. In all these tubes the electrodes, which are of silver, are on the outside, the current acting through the body of the glass.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891