Meet the Chemiballs; the Noble Noble Gases
The noble gases were all (mostly) discovered by a Scottish man named Sir William Ramsay (Though, back in his day, it was more common to call them ārare gasesā). He made the convention of ending all their names with -on, so you always know when something is a noble gas. (Unless itās helium which is a noble gas but follows the metal naming convention, [or iron which ends in -on but is a metal. {Also, scientists seem to really like giving things -on names, like prion, codon, electron, etc. I will admit, it does sound cool. }]) So itās not a perfect system.
The name ānoble gassesā is a bit of an early 1900s joke. See, the noble gasses are too lazy to do anything and donāt like bonding with lesser peasant elements. The nobility is also lazy and donāt like associating with peasants. Of course, we live in an enlightened post-WWI world and no longer recognize barbaric concepts such as hieratical rule and rigid class structures. Also, the Queen is dead. But this is basically the equivalent of naming them ātrust fund gassesā. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
