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Article changed over to new Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements format by maveric149. Elementbox converted 19:37, 10 July 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of 18:59, 10 July 2005).
Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Radon. Additional text was taken directly from USGS Periodic Table - Radon the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org), and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org). Data for the table was obtained from the sources listed on the main page and Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements but was reformatted and converted into SI units.
While this article does have a good amount of relevant information, there are several places where references are needed to back up evidence, and as such, its not quite ready for GA status. Its not far off though, so I'm putting it on hold until these things can be fixed.
Here is my generic GA review of the article:
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Guys -
One thing. I was on Marie Curie's wiki page and it said that she named two elements - polonium and radium. In this article it says that someone else named radium. Who can verify?
Doesn't it seem strange that the emission spectra of radon and radium almost look the exact same, but with a difference of a few extra lines? I haven't looked into the sources or databases for these spectra, so I don't know how accurate these spectra are. I've noticed some potential red flags regarding accuracy of these emission spectra images: the images were uploaded in 2013, and the author credits this program which mentions "spectrum data for nearly all the elements from Hydrogen to Uranium," which contradicts that author's uploads of transuranic emission spectra up to einsteinium.
I don't have any background knowledge on atomic physics research to say much else, so I'd like to hear your comments. @ Double sharp, DePiep, ComplexRational, and Sandbh: Nrco0e ( talk) 21:40, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
A few months ago, I stumbled across a website which provided images for some of the heavy actinide elements' images on Wikipedia. What I found on the website is an image of the element Radon. It seems like the gas was encased in a glass tube and there's only 1 reference at the bottom of the page, stating that the image was taken from a book. [1] http://gotexassoccer.com/elements/086Rn/Rn.htm
So I emailed the creator of the website - Mark Kness - about this image. He replied: "Looking at my cell[ul]ose-book version, I note the comment: 'Radioactive radon was placed on a background of zinc sulphide, thus causing it to slow with a yellow-green light'. The radon does seem to be enclosed in a glass tube. The green glow is from the ZnS, which is excited by the radiation from radon (and perhaps radon daughters), it is not directly from radon itself. I did not have anything to do with preparing this sample, so I can't really provide more details than that." And I was wondering if this image could be added to the infobox in the Radon article? SupercriticalXenon ( talk) 13:56, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Oof. Half-life of 3.8 days is said three times. Part of the decay chain of U-238 and Th-232 is said twice. Being very rare is said twice. Will be around for billions more years is said twice. Decay chain ending in lead is said three times. This carries into the second paragraph a bit where being a decay product of uranium is mentioned again. - Wikkiwonkk ( talk) 20:30, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
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Article changed over to new Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements format by maveric149. Elementbox converted 19:37, 10 July 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of 18:59, 10 July 2005).
Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Radon. Additional text was taken directly from USGS Periodic Table - Radon the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org), and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org). Data for the table was obtained from the sources listed on the main page and Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements but was reformatted and converted into SI units.
While this article does have a good amount of relevant information, there are several places where references are needed to back up evidence, and as such, its not quite ready for GA status. Its not far off though, so I'm putting it on hold until these things can be fixed.
Here is my generic GA review of the article:
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Guys -
One thing. I was on Marie Curie's wiki page and it said that she named two elements - polonium and radium. In this article it says that someone else named radium. Who can verify?
Doesn't it seem strange that the emission spectra of radon and radium almost look the exact same, but with a difference of a few extra lines? I haven't looked into the sources or databases for these spectra, so I don't know how accurate these spectra are. I've noticed some potential red flags regarding accuracy of these emission spectra images: the images were uploaded in 2013, and the author credits this program which mentions "spectrum data for nearly all the elements from Hydrogen to Uranium," which contradicts that author's uploads of transuranic emission spectra up to einsteinium.
I don't have any background knowledge on atomic physics research to say much else, so I'd like to hear your comments. @ Double sharp, DePiep, ComplexRational, and Sandbh: Nrco0e ( talk) 21:40, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
A few months ago, I stumbled across a website which provided images for some of the heavy actinide elements' images on Wikipedia. What I found on the website is an image of the element Radon. It seems like the gas was encased in a glass tube and there's only 1 reference at the bottom of the page, stating that the image was taken from a book. [1] http://gotexassoccer.com/elements/086Rn/Rn.htm
So I emailed the creator of the website - Mark Kness - about this image. He replied: "Looking at my cell[ul]ose-book version, I note the comment: 'Radioactive radon was placed on a background of zinc sulphide, thus causing it to slow with a yellow-green light'. The radon does seem to be enclosed in a glass tube. The green glow is from the ZnS, which is excited by the radiation from radon (and perhaps radon daughters), it is not directly from radon itself. I did not have anything to do with preparing this sample, so I can't really provide more details than that." And I was wondering if this image could be added to the infobox in the Radon article? SupercriticalXenon ( talk) 13:56, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Oof. Half-life of 3.8 days is said three times. Part of the decay chain of U-238 and Th-232 is said twice. Being very rare is said twice. Will be around for billions more years is said twice. Decay chain ending in lead is said three times. This carries into the second paragraph a bit where being a decay product of uranium is mentioned again. - Wikkiwonkk ( talk) 20:30, 22 February 2024 (UTC)