Elements that are Gases at Room Temperature

I took a quiz yesterday that had a comment complaining that the answers *weren't* in alphabetical order. You can't win for losing.

You should put all of them in alphabetical order, except one of them.

Yeah, I nearly missed xenon too.

You don't get to breathe now.

you needed more oxygen ;) the brain needs it ya know

Bromine is liquid at SATP and Iodine is solid

The caveats state that only monatomic and diatomic molecules are counted, and neither Br2 nor I2 are gases at STP

Perhaps some don't know how to write it in English.

Most of us encounter chlorine in swimming pools, so it's weird to think of it as a gas.

It was a Canadian high school chemistry teacher who allegedly thought to urinate on a cloth whilst in the first gas attack on Ypres. But I don't think most people think of chlorine gas primarily in terms of World War I history.

Yes, that's why it's one of the answers.

Fun tho

Oganesson is actually a solid at room temperature.

like one atom of it has ever existed how tf would we know that bro💀

Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon are noble gases. They wouldn't react with the other gases, but radon is radioactive.

Hydrogen is +1, and fluorine and chlorine are -1, so they'd happily bond. Hydrogen fluoride is a poisonous, colorless gas or liquid that becomes hydrofluoric acid in water. Likewise, hydrogen chloride becomes hydrochloric acid.

Oxygen is -2 and will bond with a couple of hydrogens, forming dihydrogen monoxide (water).

Nitrogen is -3 and will grab three hydrogens to become trihydrogen mononitride (ammonia), a colorless, irritating gas.

Other reactions that could occur would be oxygen bonding with itself to form O₂ (breathable oxygen) and O₃ (ozone), and nitrogen forming N₂ (the normal nitrogen in air). In fact, most of the oxygen would already be double-bonded O₂ and nitrogen triple-bonded N₂, which they're very happy to be. It would take a spark to break them and get them to bond with the hydrogen.

As for what would happen if you were in a room with all of those gases: you would die. You would quickly succumb to the chlorine and fluorine gases, which are extremely reactive and would burn your skin and lungs with each breath, as they form powerful acids in the water in your cells. The helium would cause you to scream like a member of The Chipmunks during your rapid, tragic death, and the radon would make your corpse radioactive, necessitating a lead coffin.