Neon is element 10, a noble gas of the p block, in group 18, period 2. Its ground-state configuration is [He] 2s2 2p6, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0.
It was discovered in 1898, by Ramsay and Travers.
Name origin: the Greek neos, meaning 'new'.
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