and degrade really, the neon gas molecules. A well-built neon tube, aside from its power supply, but a well-built neon tube can last 10, 20, 30 years. In this shop, I've been here 10 years.

The lights that illuminate streets and stadiums soon will be used on cars and trucks to brighten roadways. The lights, known as high intensity discharge, or HID, are heralded as the next generation… ...

How do you make a neon sign glow? Once you’ve got your glass-blown design, the first step is to remove most of the air from the tube and blast it with a high voltage to get rid of any impurities.

“Neon glass blowers, they had us at their mercy.” Years ago, 20% of his manufacturing workload would have been neon. Now it’s about 1% or 2%, he estimated.

Like its noble gas comrades, neon is odorless and colorless. Under certain laboratory conditions, neon can form a compound with fluorine, but is otherwise nonreactive, according to the Thomas ...

In the 1910s French businessman Georges Claude perfected a method of adding an electrical charge to the gas in the glass tube, which resulted in different colours.