Neon is a nonmetal, colorless gas that has an atomic weight of about 20.180.
This element was discovered by Sir William Ramsay in 1898 and contributions also came from Morris Travers. I will go into greater detail about how they discovered neon later into the essay. Neon’s atomic number on the periodic table is
10. It is also odorless, colorless, and non-toxic.
As I stated earlier, neon was discovered at the University College London by
Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers in 1898. However, this was not the first element discovered by Ramsay. In 1894, he and Lord Rayleigh discovered the element argon, which proved to be the reason of his discovery of neon. Then in
1895, Ramsay obtained the world’s very first sample of helium. …show more content…
It is also used to make wavemeter tubes and television tubes. One more use is as an economic refrigerant, neon has forty times more refrigerating capacity than liquid helium and three times more than liquid hydrogen.
An interesting fact about neon is that it is the fourth most abundant element in the universe considering that neon forms in stars that have the mass of about seven or eight of our suns; but, neon is actually rare on Earth, being that only 0.0018% of Earth’s atmosphere is neon. In earth’s crust, neon is five parts per one-billion by moles. Some people may think of neon as a beautiful glowing red, blue, green, etc. light, but neon is actually colorless under normal conditions, and it turns the red glowing light when it is placed in a vacuum tube and has high voltage applied to it. Neon is highly inert, meaning it is highly non-reactive. With this said, neon forms no known compounds with any substances. Neon is non-reactive because it has a full outer shell of electrons and doesn’t need to combine or
“share” electrons with any other substance. The whole reason that
This element was discovered by Sir William Ramsay in 1898 and contributions also came from Morris Travers. I will go into greater detail about how they discovered neon later into the essay. Neon’s atomic number on the periodic table is
10. It is also odorless, colorless, and non-toxic.
As I stated earlier, neon was discovered at the University College London by
Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers in 1898. However, this was not the first element discovered by Ramsay. In 1894, he and Lord Rayleigh discovered the element argon, which proved to be the reason of his discovery of neon. Then in
1895, Ramsay obtained the world’s very first sample of helium. …show more content…
It is also used to make wavemeter tubes and television tubes. One more use is as an economic refrigerant, neon has forty times more refrigerating capacity than liquid helium and three times more than liquid hydrogen.
An interesting fact about neon is that it is the fourth most abundant element in the universe considering that neon forms in stars that have the mass of about seven or eight of our suns; but, neon is actually rare on Earth, being that only 0.0018% of Earth’s atmosphere is neon. In earth’s crust, neon is five parts per one-billion by moles. Some people may think of neon as a beautiful glowing red, blue, green, etc. light, but neon is actually colorless under normal conditions, and it turns the red glowing light when it is placed in a vacuum tube and has high voltage applied to it. Neon is highly inert, meaning it is highly non-reactive. With this said, neon forms no known compounds with any substances. Neon is non-reactive because it has a full outer shell of electrons and doesn’t need to combine or
“share” electrons with any other substance. The whole reason that