Topic 1 - Group 0, the noble gases and hydrogen

THE NOBLE GASES

• These are also known as the inert gases, as they do not take part in normal chemical reactions at all.
• Noble gases are very stable because they have a full electronic outer shell; they do not share electrons with anything else, and they do not ionise readily. They are monatomic. 

HYDROGEN

• In industry, hydrogen is obtained by the reaction…