Periodic Table Part 9: Noble Gases (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, Rn, Og)

It's time to check out Group 18 on the periodic table, the noble gases. This includes helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon, and oganesson. What can we say about their properties, reactivities, and applications? Let's find out!

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[President_Starscream]

If I made a joke about noble gasses would it get a reaction?

[fijgu]

Nice video. Just a tiny spelling correction: the zeppelin was called "Hindenburg", named after the german president Paul von Hindenburg.
He was in office from 1925 to 1934. A quite interesting figure since he initially denied Hitler the office of head of government several times until he had to appoint him as chancelor in 1933 due to political and public pressure.

[raidkoast]

Some interesting industrial uses of helium and argon.
Any welder would recognise Argon. A very good gas for welding.
Helium is also used in leak detection.

[davidtyas]

4:44
"some evidence that RaF2 does form"
That's a typo, it should be "some evidence that RnF2 does form".

[Thaumius]

He is used as a carrier gas in gas chromatography, Argon is used in ICP instruments to emit light at certain wavelengths.

[ThOneWhoWaits]

4:03 also it forms a cation complex with gold. 4 xe surround one gold (ii) atom

[BludgeonedDEATH]

Congrats on 2 million subscribers, Prof Dave!

[TheRojo]

Radon difluoride, eh? Dave, you wrote "RADIUM difluoride" in chemical symbols there!

[gilbertvelez]

Awesomeness! Though all of the videos were the bomb as usual, this one was especially interesting I thought lead was formed in stars or is it that the case or that radon rain happens to decompose into Po, Pb, Bi? .
I just watched a documentary on the discovery of the noble gasses and this video has given me an intuitive understanding of it. Thank you Professor Dave!

[ladyselenafelicitywhite]

It makes me laugh when I say that the three most prominent gases in the atmosphere are Nitrogen, Oxygen, and *Argon.* Yet people insist that Argon isn't the third most abundant gas in the atmosphere.

[scott_meyer]

You should cover the Nucleosynthesis periodic table next.

[Valdagast]

Krypton is also the planet Superman came from.

[kostisschizas]

0:48 I believe there should be also a d10 on some elements

[timecode]

It always hurts to see balloons getting filled with such an expensive and useful gas, just for the balloon to rise up in the air, never to be seen again

[foppishdilletaunt]

King George V was the king of England. He passed so much gas he was given a Nobel Prize.

[borysnijinski]

To be pedantic, the Hindenburg was not a blimp, it was a dirigible. Blimps do not have rigid support structure while dirigibles do have an internal skeleton.

[richardbennett]

I learned otherwise. Oganesson is according to most boffins a solid, not a GAS. And, it depends entirely on the temperature and pressure anyway. And such is true for all these elements.

[nfinfi]

Any reason why adding different noble gases to my nail gun to see if there’s performance gains. The gun runs 125psi would this pose a safety risk. Obviously radon is bumped off the safe list.

[Jeff-xyfv]

If you fill a balloon with oganesson, would it drop to the ground like a rock since it's so heavy?

[richardbennett]

I don't understand the man's argument that helium is too light to get deposited during Planet Earth's formation and lighter than air so it escapes into space? What?

Doesn't it have to do with gravity of the planet, not with whether it's mixed with air?

Also there's helium in the closest star. It's light there, too, but it didn't escape into space. Also, there's helium at all the planets past the orbit of Mars, and it didn't escape from them.