Do noble gases react with anything?

Answer 1

Noble gases are generally inert, but noble gases down the group like xenon will react with highly electronegative elements like fluorine or oxygen to form compounds like XeF4, XeF6, XeOF2 etc.

Answer 2

Noble gases have completely filled orbitals / energy levels. They generally have 8 valence electrons (helium has only 2) and have stable electronic configuration. Hence they are chemically inert and generally donot form compounds under normal conditions.

However krypton and xenon do form compounds like KrF2, XeF4, XeOF4 etc.

Answer 3

The noble gases are usually inert, because their electron shells are full. The further away an electron is the higher its energy and the less of a hold the protons have one it. If a highly electro-negative element comes in contact with a noble gas in high heat, the noble gas can lose an electron. Thus the noble gas becomes a cation. The cation noble gas is free to from a ionic bond with a anion.

Answer 4

With difficulty all of them (except helium and neon) form chemical compounds- (there are also transient species called excimers- see link) Xenon has quite an extensive chemistry- there are all sorts of xenon fluorides oxides and oxyfluorides. Xenon has the most extensive chemistry of all the noble gases. Argon compounds are very few and very unstable- they can be trapped at very low temperature.

Answer 5

That can't happen because noble gases don't react with other elements.

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Noble gases are very unreactive; but in special conditions they can react with some elements, for example fluorine. The chemistry of noble gases is known from about 50 years.

Answer 6

As a general answer - no. However, over the years, Xenon has been found to form quite a few compounds under certain conditions with certain reactants. In addition, Krypton has too. The hexafluroplatinate saltt of Xenon was the first to be synthesised. There have been quite a few more since.

Answer 7

noble gases do not react with other elements because there valence shell is full and when the valence shell is full it means that they are stable. noble gases follow the octet rule.