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n. a lamp consisting of a small gas-discharge tube containing neon at low pressure; luminescence is produced by the action of currents at high frequencies that are wrapped a few turns around the tube [syn: neon lamp, neon induction lamp]
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Usage examples of "neon tube".
A simple ring five hundred meters in diameter, it looked like a toroid of black hexagonal netting encasing a weak-glowing neon tube.
Steadily they flew on, waiting tensely for the first sign of a glow from the tiny neon tube indicator on the panel before Morey.
Strip lighting in the ceiling loaned everything a blue-tinged sheen and flicker, humming electrically where sections of old neon tube were starting to short out.
Rex swung it at the neon tube, plunging the bathroom into darkness.
It contains the fascinating news that if you connect a Life Saver to a neon tube with wires and bash it (the Life Saver) with a hammer, the neon tube will flash.
Maybe ionization caused by the storm, turning the whole sky into some sort of fluorescing neon tube?
I told him, only half joking, about how I imagined the soul of each person, myself included, as being a sort of flexible neon tube inside.