Do noble gases have a ionic bond?

Answer 1

No, noble gases do not combine to form any kind of bond as they have stable electronic configurations.

What is an atom?An atom consists of a bunch of electrons, protons and neutrons. The electrons arrange themselves in "electron shells". These electron shells always have a number of 1 to 8 electrons.

Except for the first shell, that can only hold 2 electrons.

So if an atom has 12 electrons, it will have the following structure:

• First (inner) shell of 2 electrons
• A second shell with 8 electrons
• And an outer shell with 2 electrons

The outermost shellThis outer shell electrons, are called the valence electrons. They are the most important since they determine how the atom will behave in chemical reactions but also other features of the atom.

Note: That's why in the periodic table atoms are sorted by their amount of electrons. Very interesting is that atoms with the same amount of valence electrons (but different amount of shells) show the same physical characteristics.

The atoms who have 8 valence atoms, that's the maximum an atom can have on it's outer shell, are the noble gasses and are chemically the most stable. They all exist in gas form at room temperature, they all show the same physical characteristics like I said before.

Binding of atomsWhen atoms bind they share some of their valence electrons with an other atom or by "gaining" or "losing" valence electrons to reach a state with 8 valence electrons. They do this to achieve a more stable state. Covalent bondTwo or more atoms will share their valence electrons together. Because more than one nuclei (center of the atom with the protons and neutrons) are using the same electron those two atoms are being held together by a covalent bond and form a molecule.

So if an atom has 2 valence electrons, he will try to bind with an atom which has 6 valence electrons. Or 4 atoms with 2 valence electrons will bind to each other.

Ionic bondAn atom with a very low amount of valence electrons will give his valence electrons to an atom with a very high amount of valence electrons and thus making them positively and negatively charged (ion). This inflicted charge will attract the atoms together and they will be held together by an ionic bond.

So if an atom has 1 valence electrons, he will try to bind with an atom which has 7 valence electrons.

Noble gassesNoble gasses already have 8 valence electrons by themselves so they already have a stable state and don't have to bind with other atoms.

Answer 2

Yes, quite easily in the right circumstances.

Xenon is known to form ionic compounds with fluoride, as are several other noble gases. When at a high enough temperature, it is also known that the nobles will ionise to plasma.

Answer 3

No, noble gases (at least the three lightest ones) have no chemical bond whatever!

Answer 4

Noble gases are elements. they do not form ions.

Answer 5

Noble gases do not generally form ions. However when atoms gain or lose electrons, ions are formed which generally (not always) have the electron configuration of the nearest noble gas.

Answer 6

Noble gases generally do not form ions, so they do not have ionic radius.

Answer 7

No, noble gases do not typically form ionic bonds because they have a full outer electron shell, making them stable and unreactive. They are more likely to form covalent or van der Waals bonds.