Sir William Ramsay; a scientist, an author, and a short time businessman. Mr. William Ramsay is mostly known for his discovery of four of the noble gases. Ramsay also added the Noble Gases category to the Periodic Table of Elements. The four noble gases he discovered were Argon, Xenon, Neon, and Krypton. Ramsay furthered the discoveries of Helium and Radon, as well. In his later life, he was given many awards, such as the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the Davy Medal, and was knighted. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1904. His later awards were awarded to him shortly after. He was a very smart man who accomplished an assortment of scientific discoveries and achievements in his lifetime. Even though he was a busy man he still made time to his …show more content…
Krypton is the fourth Noble Gas. The element Krypton is also an extremely hard element to extract. Krypton was extracted by liquefying air, just like the previous element. Sir William Ramsay extracted the gas by cooling the air to -152*C and then proceeded to pressurize the air. Krypton’s periodic table labels are as follows: the chemical symbol is “Kr”, the atomic weight is 84, and the atomic number is 36. Because Krypton is so hard to extract, the gas is named after the Greek word Kryptos. Krypton's English name is “hidden”, which fits its characteristics. The atmosphere only has 0.0001% of the element Krypton. Krypton also has 1,650,763.73 wavelengths. It produces an orange-red color when charged with electricity just like …show more content…
William Ramsay also discovered Neon. First of all, when Neon is charged with electricity, it only emits an orange-red glow. All other common neon colors are produced from different gasses. Those colors vary from green to yellow. The neon lights can also be colored by changing the color of the glass tubing that the gas and electricity are in.The name Neon came from another Greek word as well. That word is “neos”. Neos is translated into new. Neon has the chemical number of 10, the atomic weight of 20, and the chemical symbol of “Ne”. When Sir Ramsay liquified the air, he was able to liquify Neon. This great scientific discovery occurred in 1898. This happened shortly after discovering Krypton. Also, neon is the least reactive noble gas. Neon’s cooling power is also 40% more efficient than
In 1895, Professor Wilhelm C. Roentgen, a German physicist, was working with a cathode ray tube, much like our fluorescent light bulb. The tube consisted of positive and negative electrodes encapsulated in a glass envelope. On November 8, 1895, Roentgen was conducting experiments in his lab on the effects of cathode rays. He evacuated all the air from the tube and passed a high electric voltage through it after filling it with a special gas. When he did this, the tube began to give off a fluorescent glow. Roentgen then shielded the tube with heavy black paper and discovered a green colored fluorescent light could be seen coming from a screen located a few feet away from the tube.
Although some of the elements have been known for thousands of years, our understanding of many elements is still young. Mendeleev’s first Periodic Table contained only 63 elements, and about that many were discovered in the following 100 years. Just like countries, emperors, philosophers, and cities, elements have histories, too.“The Disappearing spoon” by Sam Kean, is a detailed history of the elements on the Periodic Table. Kean does a important job of telling every single element’s journey throughout the history of mankind: from the earliest times, when chemistry was intermingled with alchemy, to these days of modern chemistry. For example: Thallium is considered the deadliest element, pretending to be potassium to gain entry into our cells where it then breaks amino acid bonds within proteins. The CIA once developed a plan to poison Fidel Castro by dosing his socks with thallium-tainted
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Beryllium has the symbol Be. In the older chemical literature, beryllium is called glucinium after the Greek word glykys meaning sweet, because of Vauquelin's initial description and observation of Beryllium. Beryllium's atomic number is 4, its atomic weight is 9.01 and in its pure metal form it melts at 1278 degrees Celsius.
Hydrogen was first recognized in 1766 by an English chemist ad physicist named Henry Cavendish (who also discovered nitrogen) in London, England. Written records state that Robert Boyle produced hydrogen gas when experimenting with irons and acids in 1671, however, Henry Cavendish is known for first recognizing hydrogen as a distinct element. In 1766, Cavendish collected it over mercury; he described it as "inflammable air from metals." Cavendish evolved hydrogen gas by reacting zinc metal with hydr...
Two chemists came upon the discovery and those two are: Sir William Ramsay, who is from Scotland, and Morris M. Travers who is from our homeland. This element was founded on May 30, 1898. The way that those two came upon the element Krypton was that they first found the elements Argon and Helium. From using their common knowledge they figured that there had to be some elements between those two on the periodic table, so they did a ton of experiments and through trials and trials they came up with a couple more elements and one of those elements was Krypton. Next the essay will discuss the shape of Krypton and where it is found.
I am from a rare group of gases called noble gases. The other noble gases are helium, xenon, neon, argon and radon. I was discovered in England in 1898 almost 100 years ago by Sir William Ramsey and Morris W. Travers. They found me in the less volatile part of inert-gas mixture left after oxygen had been chemically removed from a sample of air. I am about one millionth of the earth's atmosphere.
I hope I have answered the question “What was his personal life like?” good in here and would like to summarize by saying that he was able to overcome all odds to become a famous inventor that even had a movie made by him. I would also like to say that He made many, many products that we still use all from simple plants like peanuts in summary to the answer of the question “What did he actually do?”. He also had many hobbies that ended up in helping many people (“What did he like to do when he wasn’t working?”). I have found that this man that I knew nothing about before the report is one of the few real life people I know of that overcame so many things in his life that almost no one even knows
Potassium is a solid silvery white element. It is soft and can be cut with a knife. Potassium is the least dense known metal, besides lithium. It is the seventh most abundant element. It makes up about 1.5% by weight of the earth's crust. It decomposes in water because of the hydrogen. It usually catches fire during reaction with water.
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Some of his inventions were improvements on other inventions, like the telephone. He didn’t “invent” the telephone he just made it better. Some of his inventions he did try to invent, like the light bulb and the movie projector. The one he is most proud of was pretty much an accident--the phonograph.
Brand was obsessed with finding the Philosopher’s Stone; this stone reputedly could change metals into gold. With his discovery, this made Brand the first known discoverer of an element. In 1669, he isolated human urine and distilled it which resulted in a white and waxy material. Brand named this material phosphorus (light bearer) because it glowed in the dark. This discovery was kept a secret until 1680 when an English chemist Robert Boyle discovered phosphorus independently. Boyle’s definition of this element was simply “a substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler substance by a chemical reaction”. This definition of the element lasted for three centuries until the discovery of subatomic
In the world of fascinating sights, colors are all are found everywhere in all sorts of ways. Colors are put into categories and types depending on what one is looking at. Some categories of colors may include: value-tints/shades, complementary colors, analogous colors, cool colors, warm colors, and neutral colors. The types of colors within these categories include: primary, secondary, tertiary, complementary, analogous, active and passive colors. These types and categorizes can be seen in a circular diagram that is divided by hue, saturation, and value called, the color wheel. The color wheel consists of all colors that are within the visible spectrum. The electromagnetic spectrum A basic color wheel includes: red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, and violet. As one looks cl...
The Aurora Borealis is most often seen in a striking green color, but it also occasionally shows off its many colors ranging from red to pink, blue to purple, dark to light. The reason that the aurora is seen in so many colors is that our atmosphere is made up of many different compounds like Oxygen and Nitrogen. When the charged particles that come from the sun hit the atoms and molecules of the Earth's atmosphere, they excite those atoms, giving off light. Different atoms give off different colors of the spectrum when they are excited. A familiar example is the Neon lights that we see on many business signs in our modern world. The Neon lights contain the gas Neon. These lights have electricity run through them to excite the Neon gas. When the Neon is excited, it gives off a brilliant red-orange color. The Neon lights are the same idea as the aurora, only on a lot smaller scale.