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Xenon-136 is produced when xenon-135 undergoes neutron capture before it can decay. The ratio of xenon-136 to xenon-135 (or its decay products) can give hints as to the power history of a given reactor and the absence of xenon-136 is a "fingerprint" for nuclear explosions, as xenon-135 is not produced directly but as a product of successive ...
Xenon-129 can be used to examine the early history of the Earth. 129 Xe was derived from the extinct nuclide of iodine, iodine-129 or 129 I (with a half-life of 15.7 Million years , or Myr), which can be used in iodine-xenon (I-Xe) dating.
Xenon-136 is an isotope of xenon that undergoes double beta decay to barium-136 with a very long half-life of 2.11 × 10 21 years, more than 10 orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe ((13.799 ± 0.021) × 10 9 years). It is being used in the Enriched Xenon Observatory experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay.
Earth's xenon is missing. Earth's atmosphere contains less xenon than it should, at least based on studies of some of the oldest space rocks in the solar system. Carbonaceous chondrites contain ...
Xenon has an unexpectedly low abundance in the atmosphere, in what has been called the missing xenon problem; one theory is that the missing xenon may be trapped in minerals inside the Earth's crust. [73] After the discovery of xenon dioxide, research showed that Xe can substitute for Si in quartz. [74]
Those that may in the future be found to be radioactive are expected to have half-lives longer than 10 22 years (for example, xenon-134). [citation needed] In April 2019 it was announced that the half-life of xenon-124 had been measured to 1.8 × 10 22 years.
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A piece of the Apollo 12 mission’s Saturn V rocket, which carried three astronauts on the second crewed moon landing in 1969, baffled scientists in the early 2000s when it came back into Earth ...