A noble gas is a gas on the furthest column of the periodic table, notable for having a full outer orbital of electrons, preventing it from bonding with any other element, even itself, and as a result being remarkably stable and unlikely to react.
edited 21st Jul '14 10:57:20 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistHydrogen only has one valence electron, and the first orbital requires two, so it reacts with itself and other elements readily. Helium, being at the other end of the scale, has two electrons, giving it a full s orbital.
Orbitals are basically the layers of "rings" (though they aren't truly rings) of electrons surrounding a nucleus.
Neon has a full p orbital, one step up from the s orbital, as it has more electrons.
edited 21st Jul '14 10:58:44 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistBasically, it's in an atom's nature to want to have a full outer orbital. Hence why they bond with other atoms, to achieve this via ionic or covalent bonds. Noble gases on the other hand already have full outer orbitals, so they have no "desire" to bond with other atoms.
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edited 21st Jul '14 11:03:31 PM by foxmccloud4387
Late response, but I remember a character I made who was sort of immune to any supernatural ability.
And yeah, Noble Gases are basically just really unreactive elements.
edited 21st Jul '14 11:02:32 PM by gameboy3
And it's so easy when you're evil... This is the life for me, the Devil tips his hat to me...I failed chemistry from all the maths and shit, but I would be happy to explain concepts to you. I like concepts. Concepts are cool.
It was the spectrum stuff that officially killed my grade. Fucking lambda...
Oh, and entropy. Fuck entropy. And enthalpy. Fuck them both.
edited 21st Jul '14 11:05:14 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist

im not asking you guys for help with shit