Element 10 · Gas at room temperature
Neon
Looks like: colorless gas exhibiting an orange-red glow when placed in a high voltage electric field.
Neon is atom number 10 — every Neon atom has exactly 10 protons in its center, and that number is what makes it Neon and nothing else. Its symbol is Ne. At room temperature it is a gas.
Neon is a chemical element with symbol Ne and atomic number 10. It is in group 18 (noble gases) of the periodic table. Neon is a colorless, odorless, inert monatomic gas under standard conditions, with about two-thirds the density of air.
Summary from the source dataset, derived from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) · original article
Neon sits in period 2, group 18 of the p-block. Its 10 electrons fill shells of 2, 8 — written as [He] 2s2 2p6. Its electronegativity is — on the Pauling scale, and pulling the first electron off takes 2080.7 kJ/mol. The outermost shell holds 8 electrons — the ones that do all the chemistry.
Full configuration: 1s2 2s2 2p6
Ionization energies (kJ/mol): 2080.7, 3952.3, 6122, 9371, 12177, 15238, 19999, 23069.5 … (10 published)
Electron affinity: -116 kJ/mol · Electronegativity (Pauling):
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Density: 0.9002
g/L · melts 24.56 K · boils 27.104 K
Values exactly as published — see where the data comes from.
Atomic mass
20.17976u
Density
0.9002g/L
Melts
24.56 K
Boils
27.104 K
The units on this page — explained by Unitii
Neon's family
Elements in the same column share their outer-electron count, so they behave alike.
Source
Discovered by Morris Travers.
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