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The Group 8A elements have a full octet of eight valence electrons in their highest-energy orbitals ns 2 np 6 , so these elements have very little tendency to gain or lose electrons to form ions, or share electrons with other elements in covalent bonds. They can be forced to form compounds with other elements, but require special conditions to do so. Helium is a colorless, odorless, unreactive gas which liquefies at The name "helium" is derived from the Greek word for the Sun, helios.

Helium was originally discovered on the Sun in by Pierre Janssen: his analysis of the light emitted from the Sun's corona during a solar eclipse showed that there were lines in the Sun's spectrum that were produced by a previously unknown element. When helium was found on Earth in the late 's in association with uranium ores , it was found to have the same emission spectrum as the element previously found in the Sun, indicating that it was indeed the same element.

The concentration of helium in the Earth's crust is about 8 ppb, making it the 71st most abundant element; it is found in the atmosphere at a concentration of 5 ppm by volume. It is found in some minerals, where it is produced by radioactive elements that decay by alpha particle emission see below.

Of course, there's also "dark matter" and "dark energy" to worry about, but that's another story. Hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium were produced at the beginning of the Universe in the Big Bang, and became concentrated into stars by the force of gravity. The fusion of hydrogen atoms in stars to produce helium produces huge amounts of energy; the energy in sunlight is captured by plants in photosynthesis, and drives most of the chemistry of living organisms.

The most common isotope of helium, helium-4, consists of two protons and two neutrons in the nucleus, surrounded by two electrons. Helium is found along with some radioactive minerals that decay by alpha particle emission, however the concentration of helium in these minerals is very low. The main source of helium is from natural gas, where it is separated out from the other components by fractional distillation.

Helium liquefies at 4. Some materials become superconductors when immersed in liquid helium; in these materials, there is no resistance to the flow of electricity. Superconducting magnets are used for an important medical imaging technology called Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI , which allows images of tissues and organs to be obtained.

A related technology is used by chemists to obtain information that can be used to deduce the structures of molecules; this technique is called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance NMR ; the two technologies are basically the same, but the term "nuclear" is avoided in the medical application because of its unpleasant associations even though there is no nuclear radiation involved.

Helium is also used in blimps, where the combination of being lighter than air and nonflammable makes it much safer than hydrogen as demonstrated in the explosion of the Hindenburg. It is also used in deep-sea diving, since helium is less soluble in the bloodstream than nitrogen, and reduces the risk of the diver suffering nitrogen narcosis, high pressure nervous syndrome HPNS , or the bends. Breathing helium gas causes the voice to become higher pitched because helium is less dense than air, changing the frequency of the sound waves generated in the larynx.

Neon is a colorless, odorless, unreactive gas which liquefies at Neon was discovered in by Sir William Ramsay see entry on Argon below and his assistant Morris Travers while working with a sample of krypton. Covalent radius Half of the distance between two atoms within a single covalent bond.

Values are given for typical oxidation number and coordination. Electron affinity The energy released when an electron is added to the neutral atom and a negative ion is formed. Electronegativity Pauling scale The tendency of an atom to attract electrons towards itself, expressed on a relative scale. First ionisation energy The minimum energy required to remove an electron from a neutral atom in its ground state.

The oxidation state of an atom is a measure of the degree of oxidation of an atom. It is defined as being the charge that an atom would have if all bonds were ionic. Uncombined elements have an oxidation state of 0. The sum of the oxidation states within a compound or ion must equal the overall charge.

Data for this section been provided by the British Geological Survey. An integrated supply risk index from 1 very low risk to 10 very high risk. This is calculated by combining the scores for crustal abundance, reserve distribution, production concentration, substitutability, recycling rate and political stability scores. The percentage of a commodity which is recycled.

A higher recycling rate may reduce risk to supply. The availability of suitable substitutes for a given commodity. The percentage of an element produced in the top producing country. The higher the value, the larger risk there is to supply. The percentage of the world reserves located in the country with the largest reserves.

A percentile rank for the political stability of the top producing country, derived from World Bank governance indicators. A percentile rank for the political stability of the country with the largest reserves, derived from World Bank governance indicators. Specific heat capacity is the amount of energy needed to change the temperature of a kilogram of a substance by 1 K.

A measure of the stiffness of a substance. It provides a measure of how difficult it is to extend a material, with a value given by the ratio of tensile strength to tensile strain.

A measure of how difficult it is to deform a material. It is given by the ratio of the shear stress to the shear strain. A measure of how difficult it is to compress a substance. It is given by the ratio of the pressure on a body to the fractional decrease in volume.

A measure of the propensity of a substance to evaporate. It is defined as the equilibrium pressure exerted by the gas produced above a substance in a closed system. This Site has been carefully prepared for your visit, and we ask you to honour and agree to the following terms and conditions when using this Site. Copyright of and ownership in the Images reside with Murray Robertson.

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Uses and properties. Image explanation. There are many different isotopes of krypton. This symbol represents the isotope krypton Krypton is a gas with no colour or smell. It does not react with anything except fluorine gas. Krypton is used commercially as a filling gas for energy-saving fluorescent lights.

It is also used in some flash lamps used for high-speed photography. Unlike the lighter gases in its group, it is reactive enough to form some chemical compounds. For example, krypton will react with fluorine to form krypton fluoride. Krypton fluoride is used in some lasers. Radioactive krypton was used during the Cold War to estimate Soviet nuclear production. The gas is a product of all nuclear reactors, so the Russian share was found by subtracting the amount that came from Western reactors from the total in the air.

From to the isotope krypton was used to define the standard measure of length. One metre was defined as exactly 1,, Biological role. Natural abundance. It makes up just 1 part per million by volume. It is extracted by distillation of air that has been cooled until it is a liquid. Help text not available for this section currently. Elements and Periodic Table History. Having discovered the noble gas argon, extracted from air, William Ramsay and Morris William Travers of University College, London, were convinced this must be one of a new group of elements of the periodic table.

They decided others were likely to be hidden in the argon and by a process of liquefaction and evaporation they hoped it might leave behind a heavier component, and it did. It yielded krypton in the afternoon of 30 th May , and they were able to isolate about 25 cm 3 of the new gas.

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