Niton

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This emanation, for which the name niton has been proposed, seems to have the characteristics of an element, and chemically is most like the so-called noble gases, whose discovery was rewarded at the time with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. ❋ Unknown (1966)

Note 27: The German physicist Friedrich Ernst Dorn first noticed in 1900 that radium was giving off a gas which he named niton, the radium emanation later known as radon. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We can tell how the elements of high atomic weight, such as uranium and thorium, are constantly giving off particles and are thus by loss or decomposition being changed over into other elements, such as radium, niton, polonium and lead. ❋ George McCready Price (N/A)

The calculated period of radium is 2,500 years, while that of polonium is only 202 days, and that of niton 5.6 days. ❋ George McCready Price (N/A)

The radium emanation is a gas about 111 times heavier than hydrogen; to this gas Sir William Ramsay has given the name _niton_. ❋ M. M. Pattison Muir (N/A)

The expulsion of an - particle therefrom decreases the atomic weight by 4 units, necessitates (since the - particle carries two positive charges) the removal of two electrons from the shell in order to maintain electrical neutrality, and hence changes the chemical nature of the body, transmuting the element into one occupying a position two places to the left in the periodic system (for example, the change of radium into niton). ❋ Unknown (1922)

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"I have seen so many new things here, I wonder if it may not be the element that precedes niton. ❋ John Wood Campbell (1940)

Our chemists have never been able to understand it -- it is always in some kind of reaction no matter what they do, and still it gives off that very light gas, helium, and a heavy gas, niton, and an unaccountable amount of heat. " ❋ John Wood Campbell (1940)

"No," replied Tonlos; "it is just lighter than that element you call niton. ❋ John Wood Campbell (1940)

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