Out of the Everywhere by Isaac Asimov

Author:Isaac Asimov
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781558176010
Publisher: Pinnacle
Published: 1990-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

As a group, these were called the inert gases, though in the last quarter century the phrase noble gases has come into fashion.

Between 1895 and 1898, five of these gases were discovered in the following order: argon, helium, neon, krypton, and xenon. The names are derived, respectively, from the Greek words for "inert," "sun," "new," "hidden," and "stranger."

It is conventional in chemistry to give nonmetallic elements names that end in on (as boron), en (as oxygen), or ine (as chlorine). Exceptions are those elements named before the convention was established, as in the case of sulfur and phosphorus.

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