THE BASICS

• harmless, non-toxic gas used mostly for advertising signs
• will not react with any other substance
• colorless, odorless,tasteless gas

FUN FACTS

• can also be used to make glow in the dark nail polish
• can be combined with helium to make helium-neon lasers
• since neon is rare in our atmosphere, it's pretty expensive

-discovered by William Ramsay and Morris Travers shortly after their discovery of krypton in 1898

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• obtained through the liquefication of air
• occurs naturally in the atmosphere, in small amounts

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• will not react with any other substance
• is a noble gas
• has similar properties of argon, krypton, and xenon