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| Yes, but I'm a really intelligent bird. I understnad your worry. You're worried about Radon radiation that could potientally give you cancer | |
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| Wow, what else do you know about Radon? | |
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| Lets start at the beginning. As you know Radon was discovered by German scientist Friedrich Ernst Dorn in 1900 while studying the decay of the element radium. | |
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| Radon's chemical symbol is Rn and has 86 electrons and 86 neutrons. The melting point of radon is -71 degrees C and its boiling point is -62 degrees C. At room temperature it is a gas. | |
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