Meet Theo Gray, chemist and author, who helps David explore how the electron configuration of an atom affects its ability to combine with other atoms. Discover why noble gases are not reactive and ...

The column at the far right holds the noble gases, named for their general ... prioritizing outer electron configurations and sticking lutetium and lawrencium at the end of the f-block.

Advertisement Not noble gases. They lie, numerically, between the elements that are one electron short and the elements that are one electron over. In other words, they have the perfect number of ...

This method overcomes the difficulty that noble gases do not form stable structures under experimental conditions at ambient temperatures. Details of the method and the first ever electron ...