What does a metal look like as a gas? What does a noble gas look like as a solid?

Question

By the way, has anyone ever boiled a metal or solidified a noble gas?

Answer 1

basically every element can be converted into solid liquid and gass it only depends on the temperature on which that solid is present. for example iron is solid at earth but it will liquified or even vaporized if we take it to sun.and so on many elements which are in gas form on earth are in solid form in other planets which have really low temperature.noble gass or any other gas can be convered into the solid form by reduction its temperature

Answer 2

all elements have a solid, liquid and gas state. The state depends on temperature, pressure and atomic mass. it takes tens of thousands of degree to turn a metal into a gas. Most metals are black or gray in a gaseous state. I would think that a noble gas would have the same color in a solid form.

Answer 3

Noble gas frozen solids are colorless - no electronic transtions in the visible. Refractory metal hot vapor may glow white, possibly plus emission lines (e.g., glow lamps in atomic absorption spectroscopy). Volatile metals are more fun.

Mercury vapor is visibly transparent, e.g., mercury vapor vacuum pumps or mercury in air - but not at 254 nm! Sodium vapor is deep blue, complimetary to the sodium D-lines (sodium fuson test for organics) Is unexcited copper vapor green?

Answer 4

Hydrogen is a metal. It is invisable. Most gasses are. Don't know about a noble gas!

Answer 5

Here is a nice periodic chart with pictures of the elements