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The red glow that revealed neon

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Not satisfied with finding krypton, Ramsay kept chilling air and zapping the resulting fractions with high voltage currents. One of the leftover gases emitted a wildly intense crimson light that practically blinded him in the dark laboratory. He unwittingly discovered the exact element that would eventually fuel massive, obnoxious glowing signage worldwide.

The red glow that revealed neon
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