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Nobel gases are a group of six elements in group VIIIA of the periodic table; they are in the column farthest to the right. It is a collection of five elements: argon, helium, krypton, neon, radon, and xenon. Unlike most elements, the noble gases are monatomic, which means the element is a single atom instead of being in pairs or a combination. The atoms have stable configurations of electrons. In other words, under normal conditions they do not form compounds with other elements. They got there name "noble gases" because at first scientists thought that these elements were inert and didn't react to other elements. Then, in 1962, one of the "inert" gases called xenon was synthesized and created xenon tetrafluoride. Since these elements are not entirely inert they decided to refer to them as noble gases. I think this is interesting because the definition of noble is having a high or elevated character, and these elements, as a group are superior to the other elements because they......

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