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Give one property in which cathode rays and anode rays differ.


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Cathode rays and Anode rays:

  1. Cathode rays consist of negatively charged particles.
  2. Anode rays consist of positively charged particles.
  3. The properties in which cathode rays and anode rays differ are given below:
Cathode RaysAnode Rays
They travel from the cathode to the anode They travel from the anode to the cathode.
On a soda-glass screen, they generate a greenish-yellow glow.On a zinc sulphide screen, they produce fluorescence.
They are inflected in a positive direction and deflected in a negative direction.Electric and magnetic fields divert them towards positive fields.

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