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Chattanooga (sh) and Cathode ray (medicine)


Chattanooga (sh)




City (pop., 2000: 155,554) and port of entry, southeastern Tennessee, U.S. Lying on the Tennessee River between Missionary Ridge to the east and Lookout Mountain to the southwest, it was established as a trading post (Ross's Landing) in 1815.

Renamed Chattanooga in 1838, it developed as a river port. A strategic Confederate Communications point in the American Civil War, it was a major objective of the Union armies, with fighting culminating in the Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga (1863).


Cathode ray (medicine)


cathode ray
<physics> Electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a vacuum tube.