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Helium, the 'most noble' of the noble gases, had only been coaxed into forming molecular ions or van der Waals compounds. It has now been seen in a stable solid compound, Na2He, under high pressure.

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Figure 1: Electron localization functions for three noble gas compounds.

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  1. Maosheng Miao is at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the Department of Earth Science, California State University, Northridge, California 91330-8262, USA, he is also affiliated with the Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, China, University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106-9630, USA,

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Miao, M. React with nobility. Nature Chem 9, 409–410 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2768

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