The word noble refers in part to its rarity, beauty, and wide utility in economic and industrial activity due to its chemical stability, high ductility, corrosive resistance, and low impedance (Kagaya et al. 2010).
Hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, plus the noble gases are collectively referred to as the elemental gases.
The noble gases have also been referred to as inert gases, but this label is deprecated as many noble gas compounds are now known.
Coriolanus, by contrast, is repeatedly referred to as "noble," and by hurting him, the citizens are also hurting themselves.
While it is reasonably certain, however, that a majority of ancient arms were probably self-assumed, many early nobles bore arms that clearly referred to the arms of their liege lords Kirkpatrick, Jardine, and Johnstone toward Bruce, for example—and if this required permission, as seems practical, such permission would have been in the nature of a grant.
The angry nobles began to refer contemptuously to him as the popovich ("priest's son").
Marios Schwab was so eager to explain his thought process that he wrote a one-page essay on three as the "noblest of digits," referring, among other things, to a trio of ancient Greek goddesses and a mathematical theory of Pythagoras.
In some areas noble elders claim these symbols refer to strength of noble family, but not everyone agrees.
She was referred to as Jelena Lazarević because of her father's noble family.
Although still referred to as "neon", other colors are generated with different noble gases or by varied colors of fluorescent lighting.
