Neon

=**__Neon or Ne__**=

By: jal15
====[|Neon] is found in the present day atmosphere or the air. The percentages of how much you can find neon is as follows; Universe- 0.01%; Sun- 0.011%; Earth’s Atmosphere- 0.0018%. As you can see, neon is a very hard element to find. Examples of neon in our lives are vacuum tubes, wave meter tube, television tubes, lighting, gas lasers, high-voltage indicators, and economical refrigerant. A most common example of neon is signs, for example the sign that flashes “Open”. You can find neon signs mostly in the city at night when they "//Open”, “Closed//”, or “//Eat at Joe’s//”. ==== ====There are many physical characteristics and chemical characteristics of neon. Neon is the least reactive noble gas, or chemically inactive gas, and of all the other elements. This means that neon doesn’t even really react with any other element beside itself. It doesn’t because since all of its regions are filled with electrons it doesn’t need any more to be stable, because it’s already stable. It also has the narrowest liquid range. The liquid range is the difference between the boiling and melting point. In neon-filled streetlights there are pieces of sodium metal. Also, neon forms a compound with fluorine called NeF2, or Neon fluoride. Neon is classified as a noble gas and non-metallic. It has a reddish-orange glow when in gas tubes, but colorless under standard conditions. When other elements are stirred in the mix, the color turns to the colors of the rainbow. It is also colorless, odorless, and tasteless. The classic image is a rectangle with a blue border and red letters. The melting point, or temperature at which substances melts, is -248.49C, and the boiling point, or temperature at which the liquid is boiled at, is -246.08C. To the human eye it’s red-orange and also contains a strong green line, which is hidden. Its standard state gas is at 25C.==== ==== The atomic number for [|neon] is 10, because there are 10 protons. Protons are positively charged particles of the atom. Neutrons are the neutral particles of the atom, which means they have no electric charge. Electrons are the negatively charged particles that move around the nucleus. When you add the number of protons and neutrons you get the atomic mass of the atom, which is 20 for neon. Neon is a “//happy”// ,or stable, atom, because all its rings are filled with the maximum electrons. Each atom has regions that the electrons move around in, first ring fit 2, second fits 8, third fits 8,etc. For neon there are 2 on the first ring, and 8 on the next ring, 10 in total (number of protons and neutrons!).==== ====Two Englishmen, Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers, discovered neon in London, England in 1848. They were chilling a sample of the atmosphere, until it became a liquid. Then they warmed the liquid and captured the gases as they boiled it off. Neon is Greek for “//neos//” meaning “//new//”. In the olden days, it was part of the “aristocracy” family. The general public first got a look in 1910. George Claude first displayed two tubes in the Pans Expo. In Dec. of 1910. Geissler tube employed the same idea as a glass tube that displayed the principles of electrical discharge. In 1893 at the World Columbian Expo. In Chicago, Nikola Tesla displayed [|neon] lamp signs. The first commercial neon sign was sold to a Paris barber in 1912.====

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