How to Use noble gas in a Sentence

noble gas

noun

• 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
• The abundance of noble gases in the sample can help determine its age.
  — Jason Davis, NBC News, 21 June 2019
• 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
• Radon is a noble gas that is a natural byproduct of the constant breakdown of uranium.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 12 Nov. 2019
• Xenon is a colorless and odorless noble gas that is found in tiny amounts throughout our atmosphere.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 July 2022
• 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
• Another noble gas element helped to make the find possible.
  — Ken Croswell, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Which is ironic, as that institution was home to scientists who discovered five noble gases.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024