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crystal set noun

  • (electronics) An early radio receiver, having no electrical power supply except the radio waves themselves; it used a crystal of lead or cadmium sulphide and a wire (the cat's whisker) touching the crystal's surface.
 poste de radio à cristal, poste à galène, récepteur à cristal
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