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# Neon ## 🧊 Neon · 3D (three.js) <iframe src="https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Ne&embed=1" width="100%" height="620" frameborder="0" style="border:0;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden" allowfullscreen loading="lazy" title="The Elements 3D microsim - Neon"></iframe> *Neon in the live three.js Elements explorer — drag to orbit the atom, click any tile to compare, slide the temperature.* · [▶ open full](https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Ne)  !Neon plate.svg *Plate 10 of 118 - animated Bohr shells, stylized per Madelung filling; engraving style per house Arcanity kit.* ## Microsim To Do *Claimable rows, house pattern. Real Wikipedia articles only.* - Neon sign - gas discharge tubes and historical advertising lighting - [[Noble_gas|Noble gas]] - chemical inertness and complete electron shells - [[Fractional_distillation|Fractional distillation]] - separation of liquid air components - [[Plasma_(physics)|Plasma physics]] - ionized gas behavior in neon tubes - Stellar nucleosynthesis - neon production in massive stars ## Links (Wikipedia order)  `2014_Russian_annexation_of_Crimea` · `2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine` · `Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements` · [[Actinium]] · `Air_Liquide` · `Air_separation` · `Alkali_metal` · `Alkaline_earth_metal` · [[Alpha_particle]] · `Alpha_process` · [[Aluminium]] · `American_National_Standards_Institute` · [[Americium]] · [[Antimony]] · [[Argon]] · [[Arsenic]] · [[Astatine]] · `Atom` · `Atomic_number` · [[Barium]] · [[Berkelium]] · [[Beryllium]] · [[Bismuth]] · `Block_(periodic_table)` · [[Bohrium]] · [[Boiling_point]] · [[Boron]] · `Boron_group` · [[Bromine]] · 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Infobox grounded in [Wikipedia: List of chemical elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements), fetched 2026-07-08. Full article: [Wikipedia: Neon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon).  ## Key facts (infobox) | | | |---|---| | Symbol - Z | Ne - 10 | | Group - Period - Block | 18 - 2 - p-block | | Atomic weight (Da) | 20.180 | | Density (g/cm3) | 0.0009002 | | Melting - Boiling (K) | 24.56 - 27.07 | | Electronegativity (Pauling) | - | | Crustal abundance (mg/kg) | 0.005 | | Origin | primordial | | Phase (STP) | gas | | Name origin | Greek neon, 'new' | *Bracketed weights are the mass number of the most stable isotope; values in parentheses are predictions (per the source table).* ## Story Neon was discovered in 1898 by Scottish chemist William Ramsay and Morris Travers through the fractional distillation of liquid air. The element's name, from Greek *neon* ("new"), reflects its status as a newly discovered element when isolation techniques advanced enough to liquefy air. Ramsay would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904, partly for discovering neon and the other noble gases and demonstrating their inertness to chemical reaction. Neon is an inert noble gas with a complete outer electron shell, making it chemically unreactive under virtually all normal conditions [model-prior - verify]. Its most famous application is in neon tubes for lighting: when a high-voltage current passes through neon gas at low pressure, it emits a brilliant orange-red glow that became iconic in 20th-century advertising and art. Neon exists in trace amounts in Earth's atmosphere (about 18 parts per million) but is much more abundant in the Sun and stars, where it is produced by nuclear fusion in massive stars [model-prior - verify]. Neon-20 comprises most natural neon, while neon-22 is used in particle detectors and high-precision spectrometry. In this corpus, neon represents the **noble gases and inert chemistry**—the zero-reactivity boundary of the periodic table. Its role in lighting and human aesthetics, contrasted with its cosmic abundance, illustrates the gap between terrestrial scarcity and universal commonness that appears throughout materials science. ## Corpus connections - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - the Chemistry hub - Centers of Excellence Portal - [[Technetium|Technetium - the element made before found]] - the canon's patron - and Technitium, the School - External: [Noble_gas - en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_gas) for chemical inertness - External: [Neon_sign - en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_sign) for aesthetic and cultural history - SOLAR SYSTEM MINING SURVEYS - neon abundance in stellar nucleosynthesis ## Vocational-Technical Semiotics The element speaks the canon's shared signs: the periodic table cell (Ne, group 18, period 2), isotope notation, and hazard pictograms ghs where handling demands it. ## Sources Infobox: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements) (fetched 2026-07-08); etymology per the same table's notes. Story sources to be added at enrichment.  ## From the Real GENERATIVE library > Neon is a chemical element; it has the symbol Ne and atomic number 10. It is the second noble gas in the periodic table.[13] Neon is a colorless, odorless, inert monatomic gas under standard conditions, with approximately two-thirds the density of air. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon))  ## Navigation - Canon: Elements Canon index - neighbors by Z: [[Fluorine|Fluorine (9)]] - [[Sodium|Sodium (11)]] - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - Centers of Excellence ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Neon) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Helium]] · [[Hydrogen]] · [[Oxygen]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*