Kundt tube

Kundt tube
/koont/, Physics.
a gas-filled tube used to measure the speed of sound: when a membrane at one end is vibrated at a frequency that produces standing waves, a layer of powder forms lumps at the nodes.
[named after August Kundt (1839-94), German physicist]

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  • Kundt, August — ▪ German physicist born November 18, 1839, Schwerin, duchy of Mecklenburg Schwerin [Germany] died May 21, 1894, Israelsdorf, near Lübeck, Germany       German physicist who developed a method for determining the velocity of sound in gases and… …   Universalium

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