neon
chemical element with symbol Ne and atomic number 10; rare gas that glows reddish-orange in a vacuum discharge tube
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Summary
neon is a chemical element[1]. neon draws 9,430 Wikipedia views per month (chemical element category, ranking #45 of 144).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: William Ramsay[3], Morris Travers[4]
- Instance of: atmophile element[5]
- Named after: novelty[6]
- Location of discovery: United Kingdom[7]
- Canonical SMILES: [Ne][8]
- Element symbol: Ne[9]
- Chemical formula: Ne[10]
- Subclass of: noble gases[11], p-block[12]
- Part of: period 2[13], noble gases[14]
- Commons category: Neon[15]
- Unicode character: 氖[16]
- Crystal system: face-centered cubic[17]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1898[18]
- Space group: space group Fm-3m[19]
- Topic's main category: Category:Neon[20]
- Commons gallery: Neon[21]
- Atomic number: 10[22]
- Oxidation state: 0[23]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[24], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27], The New Student's Reference Work[28]
- Has characteristic: colorlessness[29], odorlessness[30], diamagnetism[31]
- Different from: Neon[32]
- Density: 1.444 gram per cubic centimetre[33], 1.204 gram per cubic centimetre[34], 0.90035 kilogram per cubic metre[35]
- Specific heat capacity: 1030.4 joule per kilogram kelvin[36]
- Mass: 20.1797 dalton[37]
- Thermal conductivity: 0.0491 watt per metre kelvin[38]
Why It Matters
neon has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] neon is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]