NEON

BASICS

• Element name: neon
• Element symbol: Ne
• Atomic number: 10

MORE

• Name means "new one"
• Neon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe
• Atomic weight: 20.1797

PLUS SOME

• Colorless and odorless
• Metal, nonmetal, metalloid: non metal
• pass an electric charge through neon, it glows red

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• State of matter: neon is a gas, but can be liquified
• Conductivity: neon is a poor conductor
• Neon is known to form an unstable hydrate

DISCOVERY

• 1898
• Morris Travers and William Ramsey
• obtained from air by fractional distillation

Interesting fact:

Neon forms in stars with a mass of eight or more Earth suns