Neon is a noble gas.

Emissions edit

 
This is a visual spectrum of neon showing its many emission lines. Credit: McZusatz.{{free media}}

Neon has many lines across the red.

Like fluorine, neon has at least fourteen emission and absorption lines or bands from the cyan to the violet.[1]

Gases edit

 
Spectrum = gas discharge tube: the noble gas: neon Ne, used with 1.8 kV, 18 mA, 35 kHz. ≈8" length. Credit: Alchemist-hp.{{free media}}

Liquids edit

Oceans edit

"We analyze helium (He) and neon (Ne) isotope data sets from the southeast Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean collected in 1992 and 1994 and describe a new method to estimate glacial meltwater fluxes independent of previous approaches."[2]

Glaciology edit

"21Ne exposure ages [are] of erosional glaciogenic rock surfaces on nunataks in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: i) in the Prince Albert Mountains and ii) near Mesa Range. These nunataks are located directly at the margin of the polar plateau and therefore provide an immediate record of ice volume changes of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, not biased by ice shelf grounding or narrow valley sections downstream the outlet glaciers. The sampling locations overlook the present ice surface by less than 200 m, but were last covered by ice 3.5 Ma BP (minimum age, not corrected for erosion). This strongly indicates that the ice sheet has not been substantially thicker than today since at least the early Pliocene, which supports the hypothesis of a stable East Antarctic Ice Sheet."[3]

Resources edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. Alex Petty (July 2011). "Neon light signature". alexpetty.com. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  2. R. Hohmann; P. Schlosser; S. Jacobs; A. Ludin (November 2002). "Excess helium and neon in the southeast Pacific: Tracers for glacial meltwater". Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (1978-2012) 107 (C11): 19-1–14. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2000JC000378/full. Retrieved 2014-09-20. 
  3. P. Oberholzer; C. Baroni; M.C. Salvatore; H. Baur; R. Wieler (2008). "Dating late Cenozoic erosional surfaces in Victoria Land, Antarctica, with cosmogenic neon in pyroxenes". Antarctic Science 20 (1): 89-98. doi:10.1017/S095410200700079X. http://www.taldice.org/pub/talos/Geology/Oberholzer_AS_2008.pdf. Retrieved 2014-09-29.