Question

What is the origin of anode rays in the discharge tube? Name the particles which form anode rays.

Answer 1

Goldstein used a gas-discharge tubewhich had a perforated cathode. .These rays are beams of particlesmoving in a direction opposite to the "cathode rays," which are streams of electrons which move toward theanode.

Answer 2

  The source of an anode beam particle in a discharge tube normally is an anode covered with the “halide salt” of a soluble base or basic earth metal.

  Application of an adequately high electrical potential makes antacid or basic earth particles and their discharge is most brilliantly witnessed at the anode.  

  The process of formation of anode ray in discharge tube happens when the high voltage is connected to the cylinder, its electric field quickens the modest number of particles (electrically charged ions) constantly present in the gas, made by characteristic procedures, for example, radioactivity.

  These slam into molecules of the gas, thumping “electrons off” of them and making progressively positive particles. These particles and electrons thus strike more ions, making progressively positive particles in a chain response.

  The positive particles are altogether pulled in to the negative cathode, and some go through the gaps in the cathode, thus leading to the formation of anode rays.