Noble gases were considered to be inert until compounds that include them, such as xenon trioxide (as an example) were found.
My question is, what natural conditions allow the formation of noble gas compounds?
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Sign up to join this communityNoble gases were considered to be inert until compounds that include them, such as xenon trioxide (as an example) were found.
My question is, what natural conditions allow the formation of noble gas compounds?
As noticed in the comments, there are probably no natural conditions that would allow formation of noble gas compounds; although it should be noted that definition of 'natural' conditions should be specified. Lightning bolts surely carry enough energy to force such a reaction, but it is impossible for them to meet right mixture of gases, due to scarcity of both noble gases and super-strong oxidants and abundance of other substrates; as noted in comments (again), substrate able to create a compound with noble gas will create it with everything else first, and noble gas last.