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Definition of Thermions
1. thermion [n] - See also: thermion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermions
Literary usage of Thermions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Thermionic Valve and Its Developments in Radio-telegraphy and Telephony by John Ambrose Fleming (1919)
"W. Richardson has called these bodies thermions. For the most part, and at high
temperatures, the thermions are the so-called electrons or ultimate negative ..."
2. American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory by Jaques Cattell, Jaques Cattell Press (1921)
"... nature and energy of thermions; nature of electromagnetic radiations; thermal
effects of the emission and absorption of electricity by bodies; ..."
3. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1915)
"The simple form of the electron theory accounts fairly well for the general
property of conductivity, and for the general facts of thermions and ..."
4. Quarterly Review (1810)
"Mr. Moore, on the contrary, takes upon himself to assert that ' Upon an examination
of the subject, thermions found to be no choice ; for, independently of ..."
5. Proceedings of the IRE. by Institute of Radio Engineers (1915)
"... so that conductivity by means of gas carriers enters less and that by thermions
enters more into phenomena otherwise identical, long ago discovered, ..."
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