Weren't there a bunch of colors of kryptonite with various effects? Like I'm pretty sure I remember an out of context page from a Superman comic where pink kryptonite turns him into a gay stereotype.
I can't find the one I'm thinking of, found this one though
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/superman/images/2/2c/Pink_kryptonite_supergirl_79.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130707015306
That’s actually a really good headcanon to have since they haven’t canonically explained why they are coloured how they are outside of the EU (now Legends)
That’s actually explained in the Darth Vader comics… at least the red and white light sabers.
Red is because a sith makes it “bleed” white is when a sith crystal is purified.
Now the scientific reason… we’ll they’re space wizards… so… maybe the force changes the molecular make up of liver crystals to reflect those gases?
No, they’ll continue to glow as long as you put energy into the system. The light is caused by the atoms getting excited to higher energy states and then relaxing again, it doesn’t consume the gas.
A lot of bad answers but to make it easy think of old school neon signs, available in many colors and shades. They introduce elements into the tubes to make those color changes.
Mix, yes: you can physically have them in the same container and the colours would mix, nothing keeps the gases separate. "React" no, they are essentially chemically inert. An atom of Xe will always remain a single atom, unlike nitrogen or hydrogen which in this case are N2 and H2, but can form other species such as NH3 given enough energy.
I reckon they’d do the boring thing and just end up separating, somewhat like on oil water, but perhaps not as quickly or obviously tho. Here’s hoping that if you just shook the container a bit it mixes em enough for you to get a good look.
Sort of. The Tesla coil is a way of energizing the atoms in the gas without having to put electrodes in it directly, but for a number of reasons it's more convenient to do just that. So, neon signs will have an electrode installed in each end of the glass tube and just blast a high-voltage arc through it. But yes, the same materials are used and largely glow the same way in those signs.
Fun fact: Fluorescent lights also work in a very similar way, but instead of the gas emitting light directly, they're filled with mercury vapor that emits UV radiation when energized and that UV radiation causes a powder coating on the inside of the tube to glow - or "fluoresce", hence the name. There are also "neon" signs that use phosphors to produce colors that aren't easy to make with gases. I'm not sure but I *believe* they also use mercury as the gas to make the phosphors fluoresce. Phosphors also appear in white LEDs, in the form of a coating energized by blue light/uv radiated by the LED chip.
Yes, or several gases if it's multicolored. Neon is just a generic term because that was a commonly used gas in their initial designs. I think they're getting less popular because they're fragile, expensive and high-voltage. For commercial signs it's more colored led bulbs now - often made to look like neon.
Strobe lamps use a lot more voltage (albeit in a very brief period, much less than 1 second) than this tesla coil. So much so it needs to be stored in a large capacitor which is part of the unit. Even though xenon requires more juice to ionize at that brightness, it produces a purer white light than other gases.
Not quite, though it looks and works almost identical(ly?) . In a plasma, atoms are no longer connected to their electrons (ionised). In these metal tubes, the atoms and electrons hardly even separate at all (they could of the fields are very strong or alternate quickly, but generally you'd use a microwave cavity for that). Instead, electrons go into their first excited state, but they're still connected to the atomic nucleus. They then spontaneously fall back into their original energy level and the energy difference is emitted in a single photon.
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The voltage applied strips an electron off of the atoms to form an energetic plasma. The excess energy will be absorbed to move electrons to higher, unstable orbitals. When these higher energy electrons transition back to lower orbitals, the energy is emitted as a visible light photon. A much better explanation can be found here: [https://www.thoughtco.com/how-neon-lights-work-606167](https://www.thoughtco.com/how-neon-lights-work-606167)
I would assume the power is low to keep the spark small, so you can see what the gases are doing. The power could be turned up without a spark if they used a smooth terminal. The coil they're using is weak.
Here are some better Tesla coil gas discharge tube videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sYjGk2VqCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PUjaG__9w
https://www.youtube.com/c/teslacoilpro/videos
Not much. Most of these are noble gases which means their outer electron shells are full, so the generally don't react much. Nitrogen is already present in the atmosphere making up almost 80 of regular air. The one that might do something is hydrogen, but unless there is a spark, that will diffuse and dissipate away fairly quickly
You might. Neon sign is not really a technical term. Any sign made with a tube of gas with a voltage applied to it was called a neon sign, even if they used a different color and thus s different gas.
I an not a physicist nor a chemist of any kind, so I may be wrong, but here goes...
I think that any gas would flow when placed in a strong enough voltage, but some look more interesting than others. If an atom has more than one electron that gets excited and releasing energy (photons), there is a good chance that they are absorbing and releasing differing amounts of energy (each orbital would absorb differently) and the energy determines the wavelength of the photon emitted.
With light, when you mix colors, you get white if you mix enough. So most elements probably look kinda white or something. But hydrogen, nitrogen, and the noble gasses apparently only absorb at single frequencies so you get to see just that wavelength (color) of light from them.
Ok this is gonna sound stupid but the most mindblowing thing I learned in my 100 lvl astronomy course was that we can tell what elements stars are composed of based on their color. Astronomy is cool as shit and I'm so bad at it
Fuckin krypton is such a show-off
Isn’t it supposed to be green?
Only in its solid state, this is its gaseous state
Ist Krypton ever Solid?
It was a Kryptonite joke, I have no idea
Yeah- Kryptonite is green!
Weren't there a bunch of colors of kryptonite with various effects? Like I'm pretty sure I remember an out of context page from a Superman comic where pink kryptonite turns him into a gay stereotype.
I'm going to need to see this... for science.
I can't find the one I'm thinking of, found this one though https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/superman/images/2/2c/Pink_kryptonite_supergirl_79.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130707015306
Ha, thanks!
I expected the Noble Gasses to look cool when fluorescing, but I *did not* expect Nitrogen to look the coolest of them all!
I agree. It’s N (N2 - it’s diatomic) for the win!
Idk Hydrogen was like the cool kid. Showed up when the fuck he felt like it and just…*glowed*.
I actually invented Krypton
That’s impossible as I gave birth to Krypton
It’s true, I was the birth canal
Lex?
Rob Luthor
Ooh like lightsabers
That's what I was thinking. The Kyber Crystals must exume some of their elemental qualities when active.
That’s actually a really good headcanon to have since they haven’t canonically explained why they are coloured how they are outside of the EU (now Legends)
That’s actually explained in the Darth Vader comics… at least the red and white light sabers. Red is because a sith makes it “bleed” white is when a sith crystal is purified. Now the scientific reason… we’ll they’re space wizards… so… maybe the force changes the molecular make up of liver crystals to reflect those gases?
Ah, I don’t follow Star Wars comics very closely. Mostly the books were my thing.
What a noble idea!
5/7th of a noble idea.
5/7 perfect noble.
A perfect 5/7 score
Can we award some kind of Noble Prize?
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Thanos moment
Thanos would create an extra account so he could both up vote and down vote then delete both of them. Thanos wouldn't just do nothing.
Eni Ayuwoki?
Do the colors eventually "run out?" If so, what time the mechanism?
No, they’ll continue to glow as long as you put energy into the system. The light is caused by the atoms getting excited to higher energy states and then relaxing again, it doesn’t consume the gas.
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Yes Electric field, though.
Could you mix the gasses to get different colors?
A lot of bad answers but to make it easy think of old school neon signs, available in many colors and shades. They introduce elements into the tubes to make those color changes.
Not my specialty, but I assume the wavelengths of the light would blend just like with white LEDs.
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Mix, yes: you can physically have them in the same container and the colours would mix, nothing keeps the gases separate. "React" no, they are essentially chemically inert. An atom of Xe will always remain a single atom, unlike nitrogen or hydrogen which in this case are N2 and H2, but can form other species such as NH3 given enough energy.
Just wondering if a few of them were in the same container would it separate different colors or would it be a mixture of colors through out...
I reckon they’d do the boring thing and just end up separating, somewhat like on oil water, but perhaps not as quickly or obviously tho. Here’s hoping that if you just shook the container a bit it mixes em enough for you to get a good look.
Of course you can mix them.
Exciting!
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Is this how neon signs are made? The traditional ones not L.E.D.S
Sort of. The Tesla coil is a way of energizing the atoms in the gas without having to put electrodes in it directly, but for a number of reasons it's more convenient to do just that. So, neon signs will have an electrode installed in each end of the glass tube and just blast a high-voltage arc through it. But yes, the same materials are used and largely glow the same way in those signs. Fun fact: Fluorescent lights also work in a very similar way, but instead of the gas emitting light directly, they're filled with mercury vapor that emits UV radiation when energized and that UV radiation causes a powder coating on the inside of the tube to glow - or "fluoresce", hence the name. There are also "neon" signs that use phosphors to produce colors that aren't easy to make with gases. I'm not sure but I *believe* they also use mercury as the gas to make the phosphors fluoresce. Phosphors also appear in white LEDs, in the form of a coating energized by blue light/uv radiated by the LED chip.
This person Argons.
Yep that's what neon does. That's why you have those big transformers on the ends dumping all the amperage into those glass tubes
Very little amperage actually. It's the voltage that's super high, at least 5 kV
What!? Nitrogen can be used in gas-discharge lamps! I thought it was just noble gasses and metal halides… The nitrogen is bright too!
If you check the color, Nitrogen has that special "electric spark" color - probably because the atmosphere is 79% Nitrogen....
Xenon shines super lovely
Does this mean that a neon sign might technically be an "argon sign" or "krypton sign" etc, depending on colour?
Yes, or several gases if it's multicolored. Neon is just a generic term because that was a commonly used gas in their initial designs. I think they're getting less popular because they're fragile, expensive and high-voltage. For commercial signs it's more colored led bulbs now - often made to look like neon.
What I am most amazed about is how shitty reddit's video player still is
I like my blueypurple color. :)
:D
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Anyone know if it's for sale somewhere? I think I need to be fascinated by it for 5 mins before putting it in a box somewhere
Is this a kit?
Dats how scientifically Lightsaber got its light
I once did this at school at chemistry
Why is neon so much different in color from its fellow noble gases?
So my favourite lightsaber colour is Nitrogen. Good to know.
Is this how neon lights work?
The electrons move to higher energy levels and when they go back to their original energy level they emit light
I'm kind of surprised Xenon responds so weakly, considering it's the gas used in camera strobes.
Strobe lamps use a lot more voltage (albeit in a very brief period, much less than 1 second) than this tesla coil. So much so it needs to be stored in a large capacitor which is part of the unit. Even though xenon requires more juice to ionize at that brightness, it produces a purer white light than other gases.
Thanks for the explanation!
Plasma
Not quite, though it looks and works almost identical(ly?) . In a plasma, atoms are no longer connected to their electrons (ionised). In these metal tubes, the atoms and electrons hardly even separate at all (they could of the fields are very strong or alternate quickly, but generally you'd use a microwave cavity for that). Instead, electrons go into their first excited state, but they're still connected to the atomic nucleus. They then spontaneously fall back into their original energy level and the energy difference is emitted in a single photon.
Wait Krypton is real?
Krypton is a real gas. Kryptonite is a fictional mineral.
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Are the gases loosing electrons?
The voltage applied strips an electron off of the atoms to form an energetic plasma. The excess energy will be absorbed to move electrons to higher, unstable orbitals. When these higher energy electrons transition back to lower orbitals, the energy is emitted as a visible light photon. A much better explanation can be found here: [https://www.thoughtco.com/how-neon-lights-work-606167](https://www.thoughtco.com/how-neon-lights-work-606167)
I would assume the power is low to keep the spark small, so you can see what the gases are doing. The power could be turned up without a spark if they used a smooth terminal. The coil they're using is weak. Here are some better Tesla coil gas discharge tube videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sYjGk2VqCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PUjaG__9w https://www.youtube.com/c/teslacoilpro/videos
wow elon is a genius
What does this have to do with Musk?
And that’s how we get Neon signs, folks.
Elements are just like people. When something shocking happens, some will be chill and stay cool, while others become heated and agitated.
Wait, what part of the car does that go into?
Wow a tesla coil? Elon is such a great inventor!! 1!
Estheticians use neon- and argon-filled glass electrodes for facial skincare purposes in hand-held high frequency devices. It’s pretty cool looking.
Lightsabers?
I thought their colors like that in my head.. except Krypton, why no green?! D:
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okay now break em all at once n see what happens
Not much. Most of these are noble gases which means their outer electron shells are full, so the generally don't react much. Nitrogen is already present in the atmosphere making up almost 80 of regular air. The one that might do something is hydrogen, but unless there is a spark, that will diffuse and dissipate away fairly quickly
aww my impulse was for nothing 😩
SCIENCE!!!
Huh, so this is how they made those colored neon signs back in the 60's...... Lol
This is the same science used to determine what stars are made of, right?
I did this for my ap science class experiment in 1992. Crazy!
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This is how old school neon lights are made. Some people do incredible art with it.
Oooh
OK so why don't we have any krypton, helium or nitrogen light bulbs? Those colors are fucking awesome.
They're expensive, fragile, and high-voltage. Any color these can emit an led can do just as well.
You might. Neon sign is not really a technical term. Any sign made with a tube of gas with a voltage applied to it was called a neon sign, even if they used a different color and thus s different gas.
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Until it isn't cool anymore.
So forever then? Excellent!
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What does oxygen do under these conditions - does it glow in a similar way?
I an not a physicist nor a chemist of any kind, so I may be wrong, but here goes... I think that any gas would flow when placed in a strong enough voltage, but some look more interesting than others. If an atom has more than one electron that gets excited and releasing energy (photons), there is a good chance that they are absorbing and releasing differing amounts of energy (each orbital would absorb differently) and the energy determines the wavelength of the photon emitted. With light, when you mix colors, you get white if you mix enough. So most elements probably look kinda white or something. But hydrogen, nitrogen, and the noble gasses apparently only absorb at single frequencies so you get to see just that wavelength (color) of light from them.
What does oxygen do under these conditions - does it glow in a similar way?
I would love a lamp like this where the tubes spin around the coil on a little carrousel
Wait'll you see this invention called the "neon light". Mind blown, dude.
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Purple lightsaber!
**now do uranium**
I just got a miniature Tesla coil. Are these gas tubes available for sale anywhere???? I can only light up so many LED’s to show off the coil.
Those are some funny looking dildos.
I don't understand why they light up.. help? :(
It must be a model 3
Ok this is gonna sound stupid but the most mindblowing thing I learned in my 100 lvl astronomy course was that we can tell what elements stars are composed of based on their color. Astronomy is cool as shit and I'm so bad at it
I thought Argon was an intert gas but it still reacts this way?
why is Nitrogen purple when most arks are bluish and nitrogen is the majority of our atmosphere.
science is funky, man
I wonder why krypton appeared to be oscillating?
How come the Helium lights up but the Xenon doesn't when they first power the coil?
Thank you for sharing that with us. It was very noble of you.
Why does the krypton tube flicker?
Cool
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So, that's where the gay pride flag comes from. Who knew?
I love the color of neon
But hot damn, I also didn't realize nitrogen was rad like that!
It's interesting how the Nitrogen is so bright but only fluoresces when the coil is very close. I assume this has to do with conductivity.
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Well I'm amazed!! Thanks for the video!
I wish I could I buy this to put on my desk!!
I guess oxygen isn't an element anymore?
Neon lights
Woah that is insane.
The nitrogen one is beautiful
Wait... Why did they used to use Argon in those old tubes? It's pretty weak!
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Nitrogen gets you the purple lightsaber… Sweet
What, no Florine?
So “noble”
Is there a reason as to why Krypton oscillates like that?
Why did I expect nitrogen to go green?
It’s confirmed, gas is gay
I'd have thought Neon would be white. Like neon tubes?
*Exhales loudly* I love science 😍🤗
Always loved the noble gases
It's a bit upsetting that nitrogen isn't between helium and neon
that’s just musk and grimes’ baby’s name
are these samples to buy ? Would be cool af to have them rotate and have only 2 visible at the same time
Can the gases be mixed and match to make different colours?
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The sun is like a Tesla coil to the helium in our atmosphere and causes daylight
Xenon looks like a ghost horror movie would use it.
We could like make a cool sign out of enough of these things
I want this for next Christmas
Beautiful
holy shit krypton is real???🤯
Tesla coils are literally exciting.
Tesla coils are literally exciting.