“…Can you name the six noble gases?”
As this could be no poser for an economic geographer, I rattled them off in their proper aristocratic order. “Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, and -er- Radon. They were raised to the peerage in the eleventh year of England’s George Fifth, and Neon was awarded the Order of the Seraphim by Gustav Sixth of Sweden for its compassionate service in guiding to bars and beaneries guys who roll into towns late at night.”
— from The Moon’s Fire-eating Daughter by John Myers Myers
I used that as an opening quote (I can’t remember the term for that– “epigram” doesn’t seem quite right) for my Ph.D. thesis on Ultra-Cold Ionizing Collisions in Metastable Xenon. That should tell you my answer to this Dorky Poll question: What’s your favorite noble gas?
I know they’re all nice, but you can only pick one.