Where Did the Name Neon Originate from?
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When Sir William Ramsey discovered neon in June 1898, his 13-year old son William asked him, "What are you going to call the new gas? I should like to call it novum." His father liked the idea, but thought that neon, which meant the same thing, would sound better.
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Unlike an incandescent bulb which has a filament that can burn out, neon lights have no filament, and have a typical life span of 7 to 10 years, and some have been known to last for 20 years! Neon lights operate on relatively high voltage, but very low amperage (high pressure, but very low volume). Imagine a garden hose with only a trickle of water. Put your thumb over the end, and it comes out with more force, but you use much less water. Just like water pressure, a transformer is needed to increase the electrical pressure to the required current to make the gas inside the tube "glow". Even though neon operates at a higher voltage, the transformer does all the work, thus keeping your electrical load low.
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Try this site:\nwww.webelements.com\nit should be on there this is the site I used for my chemistry report(interview with an element) on Neon
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I've heard from Mexicans in Mexico that the term gringo came from the military of the US. The battle cry "Green Go".I can't attest to the accuracy of this explanation. We are all known as "Bolillos" which is a white bread roll in Mexico.Gabachos,guedo pronounced"wedo" these terms refers to the light skin.It is very common to call people nicknames referring to their skin color hair,shortness,tallness etc.These usually aren't meant as insults or racial slurs.
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This has some info about neon with pics (scroll down on the page)\n\nhttp://ww.chem4kids.com/files/elements/010_shells.html
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Sodium (English, soda) has long been recognized in compounds, but was not isolated until 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy through the electrolysis of caustic soda. In medieval Europe a compound of sodium with the Latin name of sodanum was used as a headache remedy. Sodium's symbol, Na, comes from the neo-Latin name for a common sodium compound named natrium, which comes from the Greek nítron, a kind of natural salt. As early as 1860 Kirchhoff and Bunsen noted the sensitivity that a flame test for sodium could have. Stating in Annalen der Physik und der Chemie in the paper "Chemical Analysis by Observation of Spectra": "In a corner of our 60 cu.m. room farthest away from the apparatus, we exploded 3 mg. of sodium chlorate with milk sugar while observing the nonluminous flame before the slit. After a few minutes, the flame gradually turned yellow and showed a strong sodium line that disappeared only after 10 minutes. From the weight of the sodium salt and the volume of air in the room, we easily calculate that one part by weight of air could not contain more than 1/20 millionth weight of sodium."
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nitrogen is an extremely abundant element in the atmosphere, even more so than oxygen.  it would only take a curious mind to try to separate the elements.\n\n\n\nHere is the History section of nitrogen's wikipedia page:\n\nNitrogen (Latin nitrum, Greek Nitron meaning "native soda", "genes", "forming") is formally considered to have been discovered by Daniel Rutherford in 1772, who called it noxious air or fixed air. That there was a fraction of air that did not support combustion was well known to the late 18th century chemist. Nitrogen was also studied at about the same time by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Henry Cavendish, and Joseph Priestley, who referred to it as burnt air or phlogisticated air. Nitrogen gas was inert enough that Antoine Lavoisier referred to it as azote, from the Greek word αζωτος meaning "lifeless". This term has become the French word for "nitrogen" and later spread out to many other languages.\n\nCompounds of nitrogen were known in the Middle Ages. The alchemists knew nitric acid as aqua fortis. The mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids was known as aqua regia, celebrated for its ability to dissolve gold. The earliest industrial and agricultural applications of nitrogen compounds used it in the form of saltpeter (sodium- or potassium nitrate), notably in gunpowder, and much later, as fertilizer, and later still, as a chemical feedstock.
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Do you mean the origin of the name "Brunner"?\n\nBrunner derives from "Brunnen" which means "water well" in German.
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It can actually be traced to both Italian and Spanish origin. Depends on your roots. Can be spelled many different ways too: Cisneros, Cizneros, Cisnneros, Cisnerros, Cisneross, Cisneroz, Cisnerose, and many more.
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Red is derived from the German "rot" (the "o" is like the one in "rode").  Orange is from the Old French "orenge," which in turn is from the Persian/Spanish "naranja."  Yellow is from the Middle English "yelou", which was from the Old English "geolu", which was from the German "gelb," which was from the Latin "helvus" (whew)!  Green is from the German word "grun."  Blue is from the French "bleu" as well as the Old High German "blao."  Purple is from the Latin "purpura," which was the name of a type of shell fish that was the source of purple dye.
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The name "Davis" originates from Wales, UK
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:}\nKlien is a Jewish name
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Use mole concept. Heres how it's done:\n1)Neon's atomic number's 10 and it has acomplete orbit. therefore it's molecular formula is Ne.\n2)1 mole of Ne weighs 20.18g&i mole is 22.4 l\n3) use the following equation and then cross multiply:\n\n    22.4   litres    weigh          20.18 a.m.u\n     2     litres    weigh          x a.m.u.\n\nNow ur equation is 'x'= (2 X 20.18)22.4\nwhich is equal to 1.801 gms or a.m.u
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Hello dear!\nNapoleon's father, a Greek from Itylo, moved to Italy and his name Kalomeros was translated into BuenaParte, in English meaning proper - Good Path!\nRegarding the first name: Napoleon is either composed by Napo and Leon (lion), or Napoleon, from Napolian, meaning from Neapolis, (in English meaning New City)
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Jackeen is a mildly pejorative term for someone from Dublin, Ireland. The most likely origin of the word comes from the personification of England, John Bull. Due to its proximity and long historical ties to Britain, Irish people outside of the Pale thought that Dubliners wanted to be English. John Bull became Jack Bull and, using the Irish suffix -ín meaning small, Jack became Jackeen. Therefore, Jackeen literally means Little Jack.\n\nAnother source of the term stems from Dublins close ties to Britain in the late 18th and early 19th century. During the state visit of Queen Victoria to Dublin in 1900, the Union Flag or "Union Jack" was flown by enthusiastic Dubliners leading to native dubliners being known as Jackeens by the rest of the Irish population.\n\nToday, Jackeen is often used to describe Dublin GAA players and supporters. The term is also shorten back to Jack or the plural Jacks.
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Kai,unisex,origin:Hawaiian, Navajo Indian  \nmeaning:\nsea, willow tree  \n\nSumayya, feminine origin: Arabic\nmeaning:\nhigh above
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I believe they are refering to sheet lightning that never touches the ground. In the tropics it can be extremely brilliant lighting up the sky like a neon glow.