On 01/10/2014 08:01 PM, John Smith wrote:
> This is getting interesting...never have seen a pure green ionized gas.
> There is a possibility it may have been a hybrid gas mixture.  Since Helium
> produces a pale yellow and mercury will produce a blue color...possibly it
> was a mixture of a few types of gases.  Also some ionized gas will produce
> different colors at different energy (voltage ) levels.  Pressure also
> enters the equation. As far as any commercial vacuum tube regulators I have
> yet to see a pure green color.

What we neonists would give for a pure green gas!  Unfortunately there
isn't one.  Krypton does a rather boring greenish tinged dull white.
Neon has an excitation state that decays with a green photon but it's
very hard to get it that excited without laser light.  Copper ion lasers
do a beautiful green plasma but that's not something that could be used
for display purposes.

Unfortunately for the color green, it's either colored glass or phosphor.

John


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