1 A neon lamp is a sealed glass tube filled with neon gas, which is one of the so-called noble (inert or unreactive) gases on the far right of the Periodic Table. ( 2 There are minute quantities of neon in the air around us: take a deep breath and you'll breathe in a volume of neon as big as an orange pip!).
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Strictly speaking, lamps filled with neon gas can make only red light and you need other gases to make other colors. In fact, by mixing different gases, it's possible to make over 150 different colors of neon light—and paint the night sky with almost any color you like! Let's take a closer look at how these things work. Photo: Neon lights in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan.
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The term can also refer to the miniature neon glow lamp, developed in 1917, about seven years after neon tube lighting. While neon tube lights are typically meters long, the neon lamps can be less than one centimeter in length and glow much more dimly than the tube lights.
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Today, neon is used to make helium-neon lasers, which are relatively inexpensive. An electric charge excites the neon, and the neon atoms give off light as they return to their neutral state, similar to the way neon signs work, according to the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The color of the light depends on the gas in the tube. Neon lights were named for neon, a noble gas which gives off a popular orange light, but other gases and chemicals are used to produce other colors, such as hydrogen (red), helium (yellow), carbon dioxide (white), and mercury (blue).
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That's pretty much how a fluorescent lamp works—and it's how a neon lamp works as well. (Let's also note in passing that it's how a laser works too, although in a laser the outgoing light is made into a super-concentrated beam.). Photo: Neon lights in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan.
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This time, they found the gas that perches above argon on the Periodic Table: neon. The most common use of neon is in neon signs, which have a century-long history. First developed by French engineer Georges Claude in 1902, neon lights create light by applying electricity to neon or argon in a sealed glass tube.
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Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases. Neon lights are a type of cold cathode gas-discharge light. A neon tube light is a sealed glass tube with a metal electrode at each end, filled with one of a number of gases at low pressure.
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1 The first neon lamp to go on display lit up in Paris on Dec. 11, 1910, according to Neon Library, a site run by neon artist Skip DeBack. 2  The first neon sign ever sold commercially was bought in 1912 by a Paris barber, according to DeBack. 3  Neon is a loner.
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How neon lamps work. 1  A neon lamp is a sealed glass tube filled with neon gas, which is one of the so-called noble (inert or unreactive) gases on the far right of the Periodic Table.
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who created a neon lamp
Georges Claude created a neon lamp. A neon lamp is created by Georges Claude.