crystal set
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crystal set (plural crystal sets)
- (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.
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an early kind of radio receiver
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