John Cusack: The Element Of Neon

It was a great day in May of 1932 and when we finally received answers to the other particle in the nucleus. After many years of questions and theories; one man James Chadwick has discovered a new uncharged particle, the neutron. Chadwick had been studying to find this particle since 1914 in Germany with Hans Geiger, unfortunately due to World War I he was arrested and his studies were put on halt. Although he was in prison he was still able to do some scientific studies after creating a science club with some fellow prisoners; and convincing the guards to allow them to have a lab. Eventually he was released and return to England where he earned his PhD at Cambridge with Ernest Rutherford.

Pierre Janssen discovered helium in the spectrum of the corona of the sun during an eclipse in 1868. Shortly after it was identified as an element and named by the chemist Sir Edward Frankland and the British astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer. The gas was first isolated from terrestrial sources in 1895 by the British chemist Sir William Ramsay, who discovered it in cleveite. In 1907 Sir Ernest Rutherford showed that alpha particles are the nuclei of helium atoms.

First, I'm going to tell you about the history and uses of neon. Neon was discovered by Sir William Ramsay, a Scottish chemist, and Morris M. Travers, an English chemist, shortly after their discovery of the element krypton in 1898. Neon is one of the most amusing elements used today. Neon mixed with some other elements

Helium is rare because there are no biosynthetic ways of making it, and all the helium that we currently have in the world is a result of the decaying uranium and thorium

led to the discovery of krypton (Stewart). After removing oxygen and nitrogen from the gas with

The noble gases are the gaseous elements helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon, in group 18 of the periodic table. Additionally, they are considered the most unreactive of the elements, due to the fact that the valence electrons are all “full”, thus making the group the most stable, as well. When it comes to the periodic trends, the noble gases have the some of the lowest densities because they are gaseous elements, meaning they state of matter consisting of particles that have neither a definite volume nor definite shape. The lack of electronegativity of the noble gasses is based off of their group, which already has a full outer shell, meaning they do not attract any electrons.

ANS: Both NO and NO2 are gases under standard conditions. Each molecule of NO2 has three atoms, and each molecule of NO has two atoms. Thus, NO2 should have the

Cyanide is a chemical compound in the form of salt or ester; made up of nitrogen and carbon molecules. Cyanide is commonly known to be a toxic and hazardous substance and if ingested in low concentrations, it can be lethal to people, wildlife, and organisms. After being exposed, cyanide can cause unconsciousness in humans and often death. However, not all cyanide substances are poisonous, it has been used in everyday products for example, a stabilizer in table salt, coffee, cigarette smoke, almonds and road salt.

In 1898, Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay and English chemist Morris M. Travers discovered neon. “At University College London [they] isolated krypton gas by evaporating liquid argon. They had been expecting to find a lighter gas which would fit a niche above argon in the periodic table of the elements. They then repeated their experiment, this time allowing solid argon to evaporate slowly under reduced pressure and collected the gas which came off first. This time they were successful, and when they put a sample of the new gas into their atomic spectrometer it startled them by the brilliant red glow that we now associate with neon signs,” (Royal Society of Chemistry Web). Its name is derived from the Greek word neos, meaning new.

In 1898, a Scottish chemist by the name Sir William Ramsay and an English chemist named Morris M. Travers discovered Neon. Named after the Greek word neos meaning new, it was discovered by the chemists after attempting to identify the tiny amount of liquid left over from oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and argon after being extracted from liquid air, also known as distillation. ("Neon," 2000) After the extraction was complete they found three new sets of spectral lines. This led to the discovery of krypton, xenon, and neon ("Neon," 1999).

Hello, I am the element Nitrogen and my discoverer is Daniel Rutherford, a Scottish physician. I was founded in 1722 in Edinburgh, Scotland. I am found in group fifteen and period two, and my group name is the pnicogens. I have an atomic number of seven and have seven protons, neutrons, and electrons. I am important because I make up 78% of the atmosphere and am the fifth most abundant element of them all. I am found in the air and can be gathered through fractional distillation, in which is the process of separating a mixture using boiling points by condensation of vapor. I am used to make fertilizers, nitric acid, dyes, and explosives. However, in order for these things to be made, I am added to hydrogen, to form Ammonia. I am used in plant, animal, and human life, in which the intake of nitrogen leads to the making of RNA, DNA, and amino acids, which are used to make proteins.

Around 1630, chlorine was recognized as a gas by the Flemish chemist and physician John Baptist van Helmont. Elemental

Neon is a chemical element. Neon was discovered by two chemists named Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers in the country of England. Ramsay and Travers discovered this element in the year or 1898. The word “neon” is a Greek word that means “new”. Neon was discovered through the studies of liquefied air.

When there are interactions with nitrogen the red, violet, and blue colors are formed. The type of collision that occurs also helps determine what color will appear in the sky. For example, atomic nitrogen causes blue displays, while molecular nitrogen creates a purple display. Another factor that determines the color is the altitude. The green lights typically occur up to 150 miles high, the red color is formed above 150 miles, blue usually appears closer to the surface of the earth at 60 miles, and purple and violet can occur anywhere above 60 miles (“Northern Lights,” n.d.). Red is made at the highest altitudes. Due to the low concentration of atoms and lower sensitivity of the human eye, this color is only visible when the solar activity is very intense. Green occurs at lower altitudes with frequent collisions between particles. The high concentration of atomic oxygen and the higher eye sensitivity in green make this the most common color to see in the Northern Lights. The excited nitrogen transfers its energy by colliding to an oxygen atom. This radiates it away to the green wavelength. The blue color occurs at even lower altitudes than the green color. This is because atomic oxygen is uncommon at these heights and molecular nitrogen produces visible light emission. Blue and purple emissions produce the highest levels of solar activity. Additionally, the molecular nitrogen transitions

Nickel is element number 28 on the periodic table of elements. Nickel was isolated as an element in 1751. Nickel had a breakthrough during the 19th century where it was discovered that if you added nickel to steel you could potentially create very strong armor. It is believed that nickel originated from meteorites in outer space. The big breakthrough of refining nickel came in the 1890 due to Ludwig Mond’s carbonyl process to purify and extract nickel. Ludwig created this process after realizing the reaction between Carbon Monoxide and Nickel chemically eroded his pipes. Ludwig ended up creating Nickel Carbonyl which is a colorless liquid that boils at 43 degrees celsius. The important thing about Nickel Carbonyl is that you