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storm9292
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Joined: 08 Feb 2008
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 Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: what i think |
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| hello! i really like your site. it could use the origins of the names of the elements maybe. i think alot of people would find it interesting why they are named what they are. its makes them easier to remember sometimes. -- storm9292
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Neon8
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Joined: 03 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: i'll start with Neon |
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that's a good one.. why dont we start it here?  ill start with Neon, (you can guess why ) and a few more details
Neon (Ne)
Origin : the name is derived from the Greek ‘neos’, meaning new.
History: discovered in London, England by Scottish chemist William Ramsay (1852 - 1916) and English chemist Morris W. Travers in 1898. That is, Ramsay chilled a sample of the atmosphere until it became a liquid, then warmed the liquid and captured the gases as they boiled off. The other gases known were krypton and xenon.
Notable characteristics: the second-lightest noble gas; the fifth most abundant chemical element in the universe by mass; glows reddish-orange in a vacuum discharge tube
Uses: neon lights for advertising signs, helium-neon lasers, in T.V. tubes
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cracked_doc
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| Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| My suggestion is to do something. anything to make this forum ALIVE ...its a dead forum D-E-A-D!!
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