We typically think of neon signs as big commercial advertisements, hanging inside windows and lofted on tall signposts outside highway-adjacent businesses. [James Akers] has gone the other route with ...

SINCE reading before the Chemical Society (see NATURE, February 13, p. 653) the paper on the presence of helium and neon in vacuum tubes (containing hydrogen) after the gas had been sparked, we have ...

HERZBERG has recently suggested (Zs. f. Phy., vol. 57, p. 626) from theoretical considerations that two excited neon atoms may combine to form a neon molecule, just as two excited helium atoms combine ...