Noble gas

(Reguidit frae Noble gases)

The noble gases mak a group o chemical elements wi seemilar properties. Unner staundart condeetions, thay are aw odourless, colourless, monatomic gases wi very law chemical reactivity. The sax noble gases that occur naiturally are helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), an the radioactive radon (Rn).

Noble gases
Hydrogen Helium
Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon
Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon
Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Airn Cobalt Nickel Capper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton
Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Siller (element) Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon
Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gowd Mercur (element) Thallium Leid (element) Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon
Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Ununtrium Flerovium Ununpentium Livermorium Ununseptium Ununoctium
halogens  alkali metals
IUPAC group number 18
Name by element helium group or
neon group
Trivial name Noble gases, aerogens
CAS group nummer
(US, pattern A-B-A)
VIIIA
auld IUPAC nummer
(Europe, pattern A-B)
Group 0

↓ Period
1
Image: Helium discharge tube
Helium (He)
2
2
Image: Neon discharge tube
Neon (Ne)
10
3
Image: Argon discharge tube
Argon (Ar)
18
4
Image: Krypton discharge tube
Krypton (Kr)
36
5
Image: Xenon discharge tube
Xenon (Xe)
54
6 Radon (Rn)
86

Legend
primordial element
element by radioactive decay
Atomic number color: red=gas