The mineralogy of Neon
About Neon |
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Neon is a noble gas and as such does not form any natural minerals. |
General Properties | |
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Symbol: | Ne |
Atomic Number: | 10 |
Standard atomic weight (Ar): | 20.1797(6) |
Electron configuration: | [He] 2s2 2p6 |
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< | Vial of glowing ultrapure neon | > |
Atomic Properties | |
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Atomic Radius: | 38 pm |
Van der Waals Radius: | 154 pm |
1st Ionization energy: | 2081 kJ/mol |
Physical Properties | |
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Standard State: | gas |
Bonding Type: | atomic |
Melting Point: | 25 K |
Boiling Point: | 27 K |
Metal/Non-Metal: | noble gas |
Main isotopes of Neon | ||||
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Isotope | % in Nature | Half Life | Decay type | Decay product |
20Ne | 90.48% | stable | ||
21Ne | 0.27% | stable | ||
22Ne | 9.25% | stable | ||
24Ne | synthetic | 3.38(2)min | β− | 25Na |
Other Information | |
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Year Discovered: | 1898 |
Discovered By: | William Ramsay & Morris Travers |
Year Predicted: | 1897 |
Year Isolated: | 1898 |
Isolated By: | William Ramsay & Morris Travers |
Named For: | from Greek: néon - "new" |
CPK color coding: | #B3E3F5 |
External Links: | WikipediaWebElementsLos Alamos National LaboratoryTheodore Gray's PeriodicTable.com |
Geochemistry of Neon | |
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Goldschmidt classification: | Atmophile |
Elemental Abundance for Neon | ||
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Crust (CRC Handbook) | 5 x 10-9 | mass fraction, kg/kg |
Sea Water (CRC Handbook) | 1.2 x 10-10 | mass per volume fraction, kg/L |
Sea Water (Kaye & Laby) | 1.2 x 10-10 | mass per volume fraction, kg/L |
Atmosphere (NASA) | 18.18ppm | as Ne |
The Sun (Kaye & Laby) | 3.0 x 100 | atom mole fraction relative to Si=1 |
Solar System (Kaye & Laby) | 3.0 x 100 | atom mole fraction relative to Si=1 |
Solar System (Ahrens) | 3.44 x 100 (14%) | atom mole fraction relative to Si=1 (% uncertainty) |
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Fluorine << Neon >> Sodium |
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Constants and physical property data from:
David R. Lide (ed.), CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 85th Edition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, Florida (2005).
Kaye and Laby Tables of Physical & Chemical Constants (2005). Section 3.1.3, Abundances of the elements
A. Earnshaw, N. Greenwood, Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, (1997)
Thomas J. Ahrens (ed.), Global Earth Physics : A Handbook of Physical Constants, American Geophysical Union (1995)
L.B. Railsback, An Earth Scientist's Periodic Table of the Elements and Their Ions : Geology 31:9 p737-740 (2003)
Emsley, J. Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements. New York: Oxford University Press (2001)