Our chemical understanding of the group 18 elements is changing, as progress in noble gas chemistry has slowly started to enter schoolbooks, starting with xenon, which shows extensive bond formation.

Quantum chemical calculations predicted that neutral compounds of argon (IE = 15.76 eV) should also exist, because its ionization energy is still lower than that of fluorine (IE = 17.42 eV).

A molecule containing a noble gas has been discovered in space. The molecule, argon hydride, was seen in the Crab Nebula, the remains of a star that exploded 1,000 years ago.

Yet tremendously high heat and pressure can bring out chemical traits never seen before. ... added argon gas, and squeezed the diamonds together. Once the pressure reached 140 GPa, ...

Kuwait University researchers investigated the relationship between the molecular weight of the quenching gas and the morphology of perovskite films used in solar cells, finding that argon and ...

All around the Universe, clouds of gas and dust swirl between stars, hiding tiny, reactive molecules that could hold answers ...

Nitrogen finally joins the elite tier of elements like carbon that can form neutral allotropes—different structural forms of ...

In the nebula’s argon-rich gas, Barlow and his colleagues spotted two unidentified spectral lines. One was the same mysterious line everyone else had been seeing at 485 microns; the other had ...

Argon is a gas that makes up 1 percent of our atmosphere. Until now, argon atoms have been complete loners. In today's issue of Nature, chemists reveal a method to make chemical bonds between ...

Argon gas is by far the most common of the noble gases. It can be readily obtained through the cryogenic distillation of air as it makes up around 0.9% of Earth’s atmosphere. Argon is, therefore, the ...