Lenard Rays - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition lenard-rays

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Rays emanating from the outer surface of a plate composed of any material permeable by cathode rays as aluminium which forms a portion of a wall of a vacuum tube or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode Lenard rays are similar in all their known properties to cathode rays So called from the German physicist Philipp Lenard b 1862 who first described them