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Air gases

Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. It is inert: it doesn’t react with any other substance under normal temperature and pressure conditions.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. A highly reactive element, it can form compounds with almost all other elements by oxidizing them.

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Argon

Argon is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. It is chemically inert. It is the most abundant of “noble or rare gases”.

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Noble gases: Krypton, Neon, Xenon

Krypton, Neon, Xenon are monatomic inert gases. Air only contains 0.002% of these gases.

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