Neon Compiled by Malia
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• Periodic Table Data	• History	• Uses	• Lighting
•Location	• Interesting Facts	• Bibliography	• Glossary
Periodic Table Data: Atomic Symbol Ne Atomic Number 10 Atomic Mass 20.1797 Atomic Volume 16.7 Dennisty @ 293 0.0009 Classification Non-metal Group 18
History: In the year 1898, Sir William Ramsey and Morris W. Travers revolutionized the ideal od science. Together they discovered Neon, Krypton, and Xenon all with in three months. They discovered Neon when practicing the fractional distilliation of liquid air, quite a tricky opperation. They named the element Neon after the Greek word Neos, meaning new.
	Uses: Airplane Beacon Lamp Fluid Electronic Safty Devices Vacumes Some Refridgerators Television sets Gas Lazars
		Lighting: As you may already know, Neon's prime use, is lighting. Neon is used in lamps to create a bright orange-red color, but hoow does this work? Neon lamps are made by removing the air from the glass tube (the bulb), and filling it with neon gas. When about 15,000 volts of electricity are applied to the glass tube, an electric discharge occurs, causing the tube to glow a redish-orange color. In lu of filiment, a neon tube has two electrodes sealed within itself. The Neon creates a luminous band between these electrodes, and now you have a floresent glow within the glass tube.
Location: Commercially, Neon is taken from liquid air manufacturers. Neon liquifies under normal pressure at -246.048 degrees celcius, and freezes at -248.67 degrees celcius. When air is liquified at around -200 degrees celcius, Neon is laft behind as a noble, inert gas. Neon is quite expensive, but very little is needed for lamps. Neon signs normaly use one liter per 64.97 meters of glass tubing.
	Interesting Facts: • Neon gas produces its own characteristics pattern of emmision lines. •Neon carriees extremely high currents. •Neon is colorless, tastless, and odorless • Neon over 40 times more effective than helium. •Neon does not react readily with other substances, yet can form a compound with flourine to create a floresent blue color. • The discharge of Neon is the most intense at ordinary voltages and currents. •Neon is the fifth most common element in the atmosphere.
	Glossary:
Inert Gas n : any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group (group 8A or 0 of the periodic table) [syn: noble gas, argonon] Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University	Noble Gas n : any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group (group 8A or 0 of the periodic table) [syn: inert gas, argonon] Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University	Electrode \E*lec"trode\, n. [Electro- + Gr. ? way, path: cf. F. ['e]lectrode.] (Elec.) The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.	Electron \E*lec"tron\, [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Electric.] (Physics & Chem.) One of those particles, having about one thousandth the mass of a hydrogen atom, which are projected from the cathode of a vacuum tube as the cathode rays and from radioactive substances as the beta rays; -- called also corpuscle. The electron carries (or is) a natural unit of negative electricity, equal to 3.4 x 10^-10 electrostatic units. It has been detected only when in rapid motion; its mass, which is electromagnetic, is practically constant at the lesser speeds, but increases as the velocity approaches that of light. Electrons are all of one kind, so far as known, and probably are the ultimate constituents of all atoms. An atom from which an electron has been detached has a positive charge and is called a coelectron. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Compound n. (kmpound) 1. A combination of two or more elements or parts. See Synonyms at mixture. 2. Linguistics. A word that consists either of two or more elements that are independent words, such as loudspeaker, baby-sit, or high school, or of specially modified combining forms of words, such as Greek philosophia, from philo-, "loving," and sophia, "wisdom." 3. Chemistry. A pure, macroscopically homogeneous substance consisting of atoms or ions of two or more different elements in definite proportions that cannot be separated by physical means. A compound usually has properties unlike those of its constituent elements.	el·e·ment   Pronunciation Key  (l-mnt) Chemistry & Physics. A substance composed of atoms having an identical number of protons in each nucleus. Elements cannot be reduced to simpler substances by normal chemical means.	non·met·al   Pronunciation Key  (nn-mtl) n.   Any of a number of elements, such as oxygen or sulfur, that lack the physical and chemical properties of metals. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.	liquid air n.   Air in its liquid state, intensely cold and bluish, obtained by cooling and compression. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Bibliography: Research: • Chemicool Periodic Table • Ineractive Periodic Table of the Elements • King, Edward L. General Chemistry. Menlo Park: Benjamin/ Cummings, 1964. • Knapp, Brian J. Hydrogen and the Noble Gases. Danbury: United Science, 1996. • "Neon." WorldBook Multimedia Encyclopedia, Windows Edittion. Chicago: World Book Inc. 1996 • Periodic Table of the Elements • Pictoral Periodic Table of the Elements • Stewrtka, Albert. A Guide to the Elements. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.   Images Found At: *www.ul.com/auth/tca/ v5n2/neon.htm *www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/ 3_15_97/mystbox.htm *www.webelements.com/webelements/ elements/text/Ne/key.html *www.webelements.com/webelements/ elements/text/Ne/econ.html *www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/ html/neon.html *chemistry.mtu.edu/PAGES/ SEMINAR/TABLE/neon.html *www.deelight.com/ neon/neon.html