Radon: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Place on the Periodic Table
Discovery of Radon In 1900, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, a German chemist, first identified radon while observing how radium naturally decayed. By 1923, scientists began calling it Niton, from the Latin word nitens, meaning shining or brilliant. Today, it is recognized as radon (Rn)—a radioactive noble gas that is colorless, odorless, and invisible to the human […]