Can you name the naturally occurring noble gases?

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Noble Gases Quiz

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Published: June 11th, 2009
Category: Science
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Tags: Elements Quizzes, Chemistry Quizzes, gas, noble, occurring

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	eln77:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 17:57 GMT	21 points
	2 minutes is too long for this quiz...this should be one of the one minute quizzes.

	GeoExpert:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:00 GMT	0 points
	Agree with eln77. Amazing quiz! Amazing quiz! You can do a quiz for the Rare Earth metals, although it would be hard. :-)

	Cartophiliac:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:01 GMT	7 points
	Next quiz: Ignoble gasses....

	SporcleAdmin:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:03 GMT	65 points
	OK, we shortened the time to 1 minute, it seemed the noble thing to do.

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	Timothy:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	3 points
	Ununoctium as a bonus, nice.

	Pyrophorus:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz with the shorter time. Ununoctium is extra credit.

	GrooGruxKing:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:11 GMT	5 points
	Grade 10 science was way too long ago :(

zalagreensbury:

Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:13 GMT

6 points

Look...I took Marine Bio over chemistry (it was an easy A option) and I feel like I'm paying for that decision each time I get nothing right on a sporcle quiz.

	pr:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:22 GMT	6 points
	XF6. Noble my ass.

	mango:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:23 GMT	-3 points
	you have all these gons, tons, and ons. and then helium, what an odd ball in the group! great quiz! (altough a little easy after you see the answers once)

	archicello:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:25 GMT	-3 points
	krypton is real?! :D

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	DRB:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:33 GMT	0 points
	remembered all the -ons in about fifteen seconds then spent the rest of the time trying to think of another -on. Doh!

	cmkeller:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:34 GMT	6 points
	Yes, you're wrong. The definition of a noble gas is that it does not react chemically because its outer shell of electrons is complete. This is absolutely not true of hydrogen.

	TheWilliam:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:42 GMT	-1 points
	@ Booger: Actually, I'm in Grade 9 and I got all of them in about 30 seconds. So most of us probably can.

	Booger:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:43 GMT	-1 points
	@ John: I bet high school students as a group on average couldn't name more than two to three of these.

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	frey553:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:51 GMT	6 points
	@Booger: That may be true but I feel like any high school student who finds this site fun or interesting (and would therefore be taking this quiz) would be able to name 5 or 6 no problem.

	HoraceLurker:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:51 GMT	1 point
	@John: I happen to be working toward my doctorate and could only name one. Granted I am a history student who hasn't taken a chemistry class in seven years; and didn't pay attention when I did.

	Booger:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:55 GMT	19 points
	I tried Calgon, but it wasn't there. Then I remembered why - it's an ancient Chinese secret.

	Diablo11d:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 18:57 GMT	-1 points
	@archicello your thinking of kryptonite from superman, which is fake. Krypton is a real element.

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	Ieuano:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 19:15 GMT	2 points
	they are real elements, they only have the systematic name until they get round to naming them, Meiternium is a real element but it used to be ununubium i think.

	lateralaenima:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 19:16 GMT	-4 points
	@frey553: Yeah, I'm a sophomore who comes here daily and I got all of them in 7 seconds.

	milkmeister:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 19:24 GMT	4 points
	@Ieuano: Meitnerium used to be unnilennium

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	Hungover:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 19:57 GMT	4 points
	3.5 seconds, no problem, also i am 3 years old

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	davidr:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 20:39 GMT	3 points
	@pr: The existence of xenon fluorides is the exact reason why they're now called `noble gasses' rather than `inert gasses'.

	davidr:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 20:40 GMT	3 points
	@Chaim Mattis Keller: No. The definition is that they have a full outer electron shell. That means that they are chemically very unreactive (though not totally so) but the lack of reactivity is not part of the definition: it's a consequence of it.

	y2jdilemma:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 20:49 GMT	2 points
	Tough crowd.

	davidr:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 21:24 GMT	0 points
	@david: No. The unun—ium elements are not given those names because they decay so quickly that they're not worth naming. They have those names because their discoveries have not yet been independently confirmed. Once they have been confirmed, the original discoverer gets to propose a name for them, which is then voted on by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists (IUPAC). All the elements from 104 (Rutherfordium) upwards were originally named in this scheme.

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