inert gas

Questions about inert gas

What does inert gas mean?

inert gas means "any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table".

What is another word for inert gas?

Close synonyms include noble gas, argonon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inert gas a common word?

inert gas is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.