A colorless, nearly
inert noble gas, neon gives a distinct reddish glow when used in vacuum discharge tubes and neon lamps and is found in air in trace amounts.
Not exact matches
Almost the only elements present in interstellar space are hydrogen and helium — and the latter, being an
inert or
noble gas, is not a component of life in any form known to man.
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Noble gases (far right on the periodic table) have closed shells of electrons, which is why they are nearly
inert.
Helium is a chemical element that has the symbol He, is colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, and nearly
inert monatomic that heads the
noble gas series in the periodic table.
Argon, an
inert, «
noble»
gas, then lights up in the next round of pulsing.
The prevalences and isotope ratios of the
noble, or
inert,
gases, such as neon, argon, krypton and xenon, provide a valuable tracer of ancient processes, because they are chemically nonreactive and so do not change much over time.
Although these
gases can come in radioactive varieties, they are part of a group of chemically
inert elements called «
noble gases.»