Applications of the Noble Gases/Inert Gases/Zero Group Elements
Applications of the Noble Gases
There are many important application of nobel and inert gases (zero group elements). Some of them are given below-
✍︎ Helium is used in weather balloons, in welding and in traffic signal light.
✍︎ A mixture of 80% helium and 20% oxygen is used for breathing by the sea divers.
✍︎ Helium is used as a cooling medium for nuclear reactors.
✍︎ Neon is largely used in making neon advertising signs, in high voltage indicators and picture tubes or television tubes.
✍︎ Neon and helium arc is used in making glass lasers.
✍︎ Argon is used in electric light bulbs, in fluorescent tubes, in radio tubes, and in Geiger counters (used to detect radioactivity).
✍︎ Argon is also used for arc welding and cutting.
✍︎ Krypton is used to fill fluorescent tubes and in flash lamps for high speed photography.
✍︎ Xenon is used in bactericidal lamps.
✍︎ Radon being radioactive is used in radiotherapy for cancer and for earth quake prediction.