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In 1894 Sir William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh discovered the noble gases, which were added to the periodic table as group 0
Noble gases do not normally form compounds.
it comes frome the greek work kryptos, meaning hidden it was first discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers in residue left from evaporating nearly all componants of liquid air
The Group 18 elements are called the noble gases or sometimes inert gases. Wikipedia has information on the noble gases, and a link is provided.
It is one of the noble gases.
The noble gases were first isolated by different people at different times for example Helium - Pierre Janssen in 1868 Neon - Sir William Ramsay in 1898 Argon - Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in 1894
William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who made significant contributions to the field of chemistry. He discovered several noble gases, including helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon. Additionally, Ramsay identified and characterized the properties of these new elements, which helped expand our understanding of the periodic table and the nature of chemical elements.
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Sir William Ramsay discovered the periodic group of noble gases. That includes argon, neon, helium, krypton, xenon, radon, and ununoctium.
There are a couple, Here's one: Xenon
The first person who characterized the presence of these noble gases was Henry Cavendish in 1875. Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen and carbon dioxide. David Rutherford discovered nitrogen, Travers and William Ramsay discovered neon, krypton and xenon. Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay discovered Argon. Friedrich Earns Dorn discovered the last noble gas in group 18; Radon. Pierre Jules César Janssen discovered Helium.
In 1894 Sir William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh discovered the noble gases, which were added to the periodic table as group 0
The zero group of noble gases was not discovered during Mendeleev's time. Sir William Ramsay was able to add them without disturbing the basic concept of the table.
In mediaeval times metals like gold and platinum were called "noble metals" because they "were not subject to corruption", that is, they did not tarnish nor rust. When William Ramsay and co-workers discovered five group 18 elements at the end of the 19th century, they were known as the "inert gases" because they were unreactive, or as the "noble gases" by analogy with the very unreactive metals. After compounds of xenon were discovered in the 1960s, the former name dropped off, and since then they have been known as the "noble gases"
Discoverers of noble gases: Neon, krypton, xenon: Ramsay and Travers Argon: Ramsay and Strutt Helium: Lockyer, Janssen, Ramsay Radon: Rutherford, Owens; but some others had important contributions.
Neon was discovered in 1898 by the British chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers in London Neon was discovered when Ramsay chilled a sample of the atmosphere until it became a liquid, then warmed the liquid and captured the gases as they boiled off. The gases that boiled off, in addition to nitrogen, oxygen, and argon, were krypton, xenon, and neon.
Of course not! The name was suggested by Sir William Ramsay who discovered it as an unexpected residue in liquefied air from which he was obtaining other noble gases. The name was based on the Greek word Xenos, meaning stranger, alien or guest and had nothing at all to do with Canada.