FYCF Blog #5: Neon!

Before the end of this year, we asked our staff at Science Space Wollongong which 12 elements we should focus on for the International Year of the Periodic Table and boy did they deliver this month. We're looking at the universe's most nonreactive element; Neon.

What is Neon? 

On paper, Neon sounds pretty amazing right? When you think about it, what springs to mind except for images of the brightly-coloured neon lights on Broadway? Or highlighter colours so bright it feels like they're making your eyes melt?

Well, as we discovered a few months ago when we took a look at Krypton, not all Neon lights are Neon.

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