Comment by dogma1138
7 years ago
It’s not all the Nobel gases, elemental Xenon is Xe2, so are the rest I think they are also not that Nobel anymore everyone of them besides helium was found to form compounds.
Edit: apparently even helium can form compounds it’s just freaking hard to force it to play nice with others - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_gas_compound
At the risk of sounding fussy, and hopefully just to inform, these are called "noble gases", and it isn't capitalized (except of course at the beginning of a sentence). No connection with the Nobel Prize or anything else with that name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_gas
Xenon is usually found in atomic form. Xenon dimers are not generally found naturally.
Noble, like nobility, not Nobel, like the Swedish chemist.
Right. "Noble" is also used for the noble metals -- gold, platinum, etc., which are relatively non-reactive.
Huh. I would not have guessed Xenon formed dimers at all, but I'm still skeptical that's its usual elemental form...