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Do noble gases exist as single atoms?
« on: July 18, 2014, 09:59:05 PM »
I am having a hard time finding a credible answer to this question. Do noble gases exist as single atoms? I assume that they do because they are inert.

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Re: Do noble gases exist as single atoms?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2014, 10:25:09 PM »
Most of the time.
What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?  - Richard P. Feynman

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Re: Do noble gases exist as single atoms?
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2014, 10:26:49 PM »
Thanks.

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Re: Do noble gases exist as single atoms?
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