neon

chemical element with symbol Ne and atomic number 10; rare gas that glows reddish-orange in a vacuum discharge tube
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neon

Summary

neon is a chemical element[1]. neon draws 3,057 Wikipedia views per month (chemical_element category, ranking #45 of 144).[2]

Key Facts

  • neon is credited with the discovery of William Ramsay[3].
  • neon is credited with the discovery of Morris Travers[4].
  • neon's instance of is recorded as chemical element[5].
  • neon's instance of is recorded as atmophile element[6].
  • novelty is named after neon[7].
  • neon's location of discovery is recorded as United Kingdom[8].
  • neon's canonical SMILES is recorded as [Ne][9].
  • neon's element symbol is recorded as Ne[10].
  • neon's chemical formula is recorded as Ne[11].
  • neon is a type of noble gases[12].
  • neon is a type of p-block[13].
  • neon is part of period 2[14].
  • neon is part of noble gases[15].
  • neon's Commons category is recorded as Neon[16].
  • neon's Unicode character is recorded as 氖[17].
  • neon's crystal system is recorded as face-centered cubic[18].
  • neon's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1898[19].
  • neon's space group is recorded as space group Fm-3m[20].
  • neon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Neon[21].
  • neon's Commons gallery is recorded as Neon[22].
  • neon's atomic number is recorded as {'amount': '+10'}[23].
  • neon's oxidation state is recorded as {'amount': '+0'}[24].
  • neon's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[25].
  • neon's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • neon's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include chemical element[5] and atmophile element[6]. Recorded subclass of include noble gases[12] and p-block[13].

Origins

novelty is named after neon[7].

Use and Application

Part of include period 2[14], a period[28] and noble gases[15], a group[29].

Why It Matters

neon draws 3,057 Wikipedia views per month (chemical_element category, ranking #45 of 144).[2] neon has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] neon is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Atomic weights of the elements 2009 (IUPAC Technical Report). wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . cns11643.gov.tw. Retrieved . cns11643.gov.tw. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetreference-set:2| */ [[Property:P14938]]: 154 picometre, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P356]]"
  2. 5d ago · R1F4T · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14936 → {'unit': 'Q192274', 'amount': '+160'}
    Sitelink count → 180
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'b
    P14937 → {'unit': 'Q192274', 'amount': '+58'}
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P14936]]: 160 picometre, Add sourced atomic radius"
  3. 12d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Zvg number → 7100
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  4. 15d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Zvg number → 7100
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  5. 19d ago · R1F4T · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxidation state → {'amount': '+0'}
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1121]]: 0, add oxidation state from en:Template:Infobox element/symbol-to-oxidation-state"
  6. 19d ago · R1F4T · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → noble gases, p-block
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q214483]], add periodic table block (IUPAC 2021 convention)"
  7. 19d ago · R1F4T · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ionization energy → {'unit': 'Q83327', 'amount': '+21.564541'}, {'unit': 'Q83327', 'amount': '+40.96297'}, {'unit': 'Q83327', 'amount': '+63.4233'}
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-add:1||3 */ [[Property:P2260]], import ionization energy from NIST Atomic Spectra Database"
  8. 4w ago · Baum64 · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → colorlessness, odorlessness, diamagnetism
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P1552]]: [[Q201048]], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/270882|batch #270882]]"
  9. 6w ago · Mahirtwofivesix · 2026-08-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i113969
    Arabic ontology lexical concept id → 151078498
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||4 */ added/modified IDs mapped to WordNet 3.1"
  10. 7w ago · Baum64 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Poisson's ratio → {'amount': '+0.412'}
    Specific heat capacity → {'unit': 'Q3085309', 'amount': '+1030.4'}
    Bulk modulus → {'unit': 'Q44395', 'amount': '+3177000000.0'}
    Crystal system → face-centered cubic
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9824]]: 9011705, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269022|batch #269022]]"
  11. 8w ago · Piotr Osada · 2026-08-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of poland mms id → 9810599053405606
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P7293]]: 9810599053405606"
  12. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1FyMyd
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  13. 20w ago · Ponor · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location of discovery → United Kingdom
    Discoverer or inventor → William Ramsay, Morris Travers
    Subclass of → noble gases, p-block
    Topic's main category → Category:Neon
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31836|batch #31836]]: Hrvatska enciklopedija"
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