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Noble gasses are 'unreactive'; they do not react chemically with other elements. This is due to the fact that their outer electron shells are full, which means that the atoms of these elements are naturally stable. They do not need to react chemically to gain or lose electrons in order to become stable.

Noble gasses are, as the name suggests, gasses at room temperature (on Earth).

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A noble gas has a complete outer shell. All of the noble gases have eight valence electrons except for helium, which has two.

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