The discovery of the noble gases shows how innovative researchers have been when it came to separating and identifying minor amounts of components from mixtures using relatively simple tools. First ...

Ohio State University chemists and their colleagues at the University of Virginia have created the first-ever compounds of uranium bonded to atoms of three so-called "noble gases" -- argon, krypton, ...

Noble gases are notorious for their extreme disinterest in bonding with other elements. For this reason, scientists have had to work hard to force gases such as argon into stable compounds (SN: ...

Chemists in the U.S. have created compounds with uranium and three "noble gases," which don't normally form compounds at all. The Ohio State University scientists found they could combine argon, ...

One of the most inert substances in the world has been persuaded to take part in the chemistry of life. Leonid Khriachtchev at the University of Helsinki in Finland and his co-workers have made an ...