How to Use noble gas in a Sentence

noble gas

noun
  • The abundance of noble gases in the sample can help determine its age.
    — Jason Davis, NBC News, 21 June 2019
  • At room temperature, flerovium forms a strong bond with gold, very unlike a noble gas.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • Xenon is a colorless and odorless noble gas that is found in tiny amounts throughout our atmosphere.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 July 2022
  • Radon is a noble gas that is a natural byproduct of the constant breakdown of uranium.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The noble gas neon was first isolated by British chemists at the turn of the 20th century.
    — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In the moon's vacuum, atoms of noble gases such as argon and krypton will be captured in the aluminum.
    — James R. Berry, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2019
  • Along with rocks and soil, the drive tube brought back by Cernan and Schmitt contains a smidgeon of noble gases that were locked within the rocks and soil.
    — Jason Davis, NBC News, 21 June 2019
  • Which is ironic, as that institution was home to scientists who discovered five noble gases.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • And an ambitious plan by researchers in Canada aims to study molecules confined inside a solid crystal of frozen noble gas.
    — Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Chemists group elements with similar properties, like halogens and noble gases.
    — Robert M. Thorson, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Just as a full electron shell makes a chemically inert noble gas, a full shell of protons or neutrons offers extra stability and longer lifetimes.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2021
  • However, work by other research teams in 2015 ruled out a comet or meteorite as the stone's source, based on noble gas and nuclear probe analyses.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 June 2022
  • While hydrogen serves as the energy source, oxygen enables the reaction, and argon, which is a chemically inert noble gas, acts as a stable carrier.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
  • To prevent this, noble gases are released from internal high-pressure secondary tanks, filling the empty space and maintaining the rocket’s structural integrity.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Scientists are hunting through macrofossils, leaf wax, mineral types, noble gases, and much more to answer questions about what Greenland’s ancient landscape looked like when it was last exposed.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Your chemistry teacher probably taught you that helium, a noble gas, never reacts with anything, but that turns out to be entirely untrue — at least, under certain highly exotic conditions.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2014
  • But, around the turn of the twentieth century, after the other noble gases had been discovered and shown to share properties with helium, other scientists made a column just for them, and Mendeleev fell in line.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The noble gas is difficult to obtain in large quantities owing to the energy-intensive process needed to extract it from the air and because of competing demand from electronics, lighting and space industries.
    — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
  • There is no way to confirm this claim unless atmospheric sampling detects certain noble gases (for example, xenon) that are associated with the detonation of a thermonuclear device.
    — Sharon Squassoni, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The experiment relies on detecting the faint interactions between hypothetical dark matter particles and atoms of liquid xenon, a noble gas chosen for its purity and stability.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Scerri, for one, is a fan, and notes that helium’s counterintuitive position may yet be vindicated — in 2017, the supposedly noble gas was found to form a stable compound with sodium at high pressure.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Related Stories Beryllium, a brittle metal with atomic number 4, and helium, a noble gas with atomic number 2, are similar in ways that could influence the observation of the X17 particle anomaly in both elements.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2019

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