The spectrum of neon to a large extent compensates for the absence of red light in the mercury spectrum, with a result that the mixture produces a more satisfactory light than that of either tube.
Neon yields an orange light and has been used in a few cases for displays.
Nitrogen yields a pinkish light; neon an orange light; and carbon dioxide a white light.
Claude has lately worked on light-production by vacuum tubes and has combined the neon tube with the mercury-vapor tube.
But it was converted into a baptistery and ornamented with mosaics by the archbishop Neon of Ravenna (c.
If an electric discharge be made to pass through a tube filled with this gas, a beautiful glow is the result, and it is just possible that neon tubes may become the electric light of the future.
He had gone into the house to make a phone call, and I continued pulling weeds from around the geraniums in the little island under our big neon sign.
Directly to the east of us, between us and the imposing Peacock, was a four-unit motel that was unfinished and had no neon sign.
The island in which the sign stood was planted in myrtle and bright Martha Washington geraniums, and now, with the reflection of the soft neon light on them, they were a mass of color.
I stood looking out the kitchen window, which faced the darkened east, and I saw the neon sign of the second motel from us turned on.
In front of the motel is a big green and red neon sign which says "Moonrise Motel.
I checked carefully to be sure that all the neon lights were on.
The light of the neon "office" sign shown full on him.
If we'd get air conditioning once, and a bigneon sign to let them know we've got it, they'd come pouring in here all summer long.
The neon signs glowed through the rain, and water trickled off the curbs of the islands of grass and the island of geraniums beneath our sign.
I flopped the stream up and down idly, trying to catch in it a reflection of the neon lights.
The room was filled with brighter light than the Procyon sun outdoors, the edges of the furniture rimmed with neon in the Mentorian fashion.
NEON (Plate XX, 2 and 6) has six arms of the pattern shown in 2, radiating from the central globe.
From this it would seem that neon was examined in the later investigations and meta-neon in the earlier.
The Neon Knights ran a network of Apple-hacker boards: Neon Knights North, South, East and West.
Neon lights in all the colors neon lights can come in.
He knew it was Police Headquarters for the green neon over the revolving door had CPD on it and it was still burning.
The human nodded, Adam's apple jerking in the angry neon twilight.
The coffee splashed out over her platinum hair and powder-blue dress that looked white when the neon was azure, purple when it was amber.
Neon light was coming from the chickenwire border of the room, from a window somewhere beyond.
I tilted the notebook against the neon light, now red wine, now fresh grape.
Now Neonis better at real soccer than he is at video game soccer.
Neon has never played soccer before, but he actually likes it.
What would Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen, and Cavendish, the discoverer of nitrogen, think could they step into the laboratory of Professor Ramsay and see test-tubes containing argon and helium and krypton and neon and zenon?
There was noneon sign, no splash of friendly light upon the sidewalk to mark the little store tucked away in this residential section.
Might not the Red Star confectionery still exist, splashing the street with the red of its neon sign?
Under the glaring neon lights, one cannot long remain apart from the harshness of the city; neon lights invade one's senses and disrupt one's dreams.
I don't want to die" crossed my mind like a flashing neon sign.
His greenish appearance had little to do with the neon lights.
I looked at the vast array of neon lights which blinked invitingly, trying to decide what to ride first.
Parnassus to which the Phokians of the neighbouring town of Neon fled from the soldiers of Xerxes B.
Neon must have taken the name of Tithorea after the time of Herodotus.
On the board before him the tiny neon tube flickered dully, glowed briefly like a piece of red-hot iron, then went out.
It was fully a minute before the neon tube flashed into life once more.
When they were about two miles from the two planes, the neon tube blazed brilliantly with a clash of opposing energy.
Steadily they flew on, waiting tensely for the first sign of a glow from the tiny neon tube indicator on the panel before Morey.
Here on arrival Neonwithdrew his troops and encamped apart, having about eight hundred men; while the remainder of the army lay in one place under the walls of Perinthus.
VII Presently the soldiers came to learn what was in course of agitation, 1 and Neon gave out that Xenophon had persuaded the other generals to adopt his views, and had a plan to cheat the soldiers and take them back to the Phasis.
Neon alone remained; for it seemed best to leave that general and his men to guard the contents of the camp.
But Neon threw in his weight in favour of separate action.
Now Neon was general in place of Cheirisophus, and seeing the men suffering so cruelly from want, he was willing to do them a good turn.
Though Cheirisophus, indeed, had already died under medical treatment for fever (3); and Neon the Asinaean had taken his place.
Neon the Lacedæmonian, with about 800 heavy-armed foot-soldiers who adhered to his separate command, advocated this plan as the best.
Neon however, less scrupulous, led out a body of 2000 men who chose to follow him, under severe distress for want of provisions.
The dangerous position of Neon with the remainder of the detachment was rapidly made known at the camp: upon which Xenophon, unharnessing a wagon-bullock as the only animal near at hand, immediately offered sacrifice.
Discovery of Neon and Metargon by Ramsey and Travers; Coronium by Nasini; Xenon by Ramsey; Monium by Crookes, and Etherion by Brush.
They walked on for a while until the buzzing neon signs of a feelie theater were visible.
Antigonus, however, when the tide flowed again and his ships floated, proceeded to complete the voyage to Asia on which he was bound, with deep gratitude to Neon for having abstained from attacking him in his awkward position.
Next, they expelled Neon and Hippias, crowding to their houses, and bidding them go and make their own defence for the terms that they had made; for they were the men who had negotiated the alliance.
Sidenote: The Roman commissioners at Chalcis: ambassadors from Thespiae and Neon of Boeotia.
The dangerous position ofNeon with the remainder of the detachment was rapidly made known at the camp; upon which Xenophon, unharnessing a waggon-bullock as the only animal near at hand, immediately offered sacrifice.
Neon the Lacedæmonian, with about eight hundred hoplites who adhered to his separate command, advocated this plan as the best.
It was at the moment difficult to tell in the case of lead, but an answer came in connection with another element, the rare gas neon (atomic symbol Ne), which has an atomic weight of 20.
It would be a matter of crucial importance if isotopes of neon could be found, for neon had nothing to do with any of the radioactive series.
In the combined presence of a magnet and of an electric field, the neon ions move in a curved path.
The neon atom has 10 electrons—2 in the innermost shell, and 8 in the next—and it does not react.
Was that fractional atomic weight something that was possessed by all neon atoms without exception or was it the average of some lightweight atoms and some heavyweight ones?
The electrons smashed into the neon atoms and knocked an electron off some of them.
The neon ions move in the electric field as electrons do, but in the opposite direction since they have an opposite charge.
Moreover, the neon could not have come from the aluminium of the electrodes (in which it might be thought to have been occluded), as the sparking tube had been used and tested before the experiment was carried out.
See their "The Presence ofNeon in Hydrogen after the Passage of the Electric Discharge through the latter at Low Pressures," ibid.
Aston discovered that the element neon was a mixture of two isotopic elements in unequal proportions, one having an atomic mass of 20, the other (present only to a slight extent) having an atomic mass of 22.
The presence of neon could not be explained, in Ramsay's opinion, by leakage of air into the apparatus, as the percentage of neon in the air is not sufficiently high, whereas this suggestion might be put forward in the case of argon.
They describe[120] attempts to obtain neon by the action of emanation on water.
The spectrum of the residual gas after removing ordinary gases was successfully photographed, and a large number of the neon lines identified; helium was also present.
The Production of Neon and Helium by the Electric Discharge," Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, vol.
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