In the 1890s, the discovery of a scarce gas named neon ignited ... discovered the four noble gases—neon, argon, krypton, and xenon. “The blaze of crimson light from the tube told its own ...

When William Ramsay named his newly-discovered element after the Greek Xenon ... the gas, they had no need for the prism to split the light, for the brilliant red glow of the tube confirmed the ...

Having obtained a considerable quantity of this light nitrogen it was purified from that gas in the usual ... Helium. Neon. Argort. Krypton. Xenon. Refractivi ties (Air = I) ...

Remarkably, Ramsey then went on to isolate helium (1895) and radon (1908) and, with Morris Travers, to discover krypton, neon and xenon (1898 ... he collected the gas remaining in his apparatus.