niton

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.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 - Presentation Speech 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.

Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna 2007

The calculated period of radium is 2,500 years, while that of polonium is only 202 days, and that of niton 5.6 days.

Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation George McCready Price

The radium emanation is a gas about 111 times heavier than hydrogen; to this gas Sir William Ramsay has given the name _niton_.

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

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.

Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation George McCready Price

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).

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 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.

The Black Star Passes 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. "

The Black Star Passes John Wood Campbell 1940

"No," replied Tonlos; "it is just lighter than that element you call niton.

The Black Star Passes John Wood Campbell 1940