noble gas

Questions about noble gas

What does noble gas mean?

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

What is another word for noble gas?

Close synonyms include inert 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 noble gas a common word?

noble 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.