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As a liquid, xenon has a density of up to 3.100 g/mL, with the density maximum occurring at the triple point. [53] Liquid xenon has a high polarizability due to its large atomic volume, and thus is an excellent solvent. It can dissolve hydrocarbons, biological molecules, and even water. [54] Under the same conditions, the density of solid xenon ...
Morris William Travers, FRS (24 January 1872 – 25 August 1961) was an English chemist who worked with Sir William Ramsay in the discovery of xenon, neon and krypton. [1] His work on several of the rare gases earned him the name Rare Gas Travers in scientific circles. [2]
Xenon-135 (135 Xe) is an unstable isotope of xenon with a half-life of about 9.2 hours. 135 Xe is a fission product of uranium and it is the most powerful known neutron -absorbing nuclear poison (2 million barns ; [ 1 ] up to 3 million barns [ 1 ] under reactor conditions [ 2 ] ), with a significant effect on nuclear reactor operation.
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Recently, [when?] xenon has been shown to produce a wide variety of compounds of the type XeO n X 2 where n is 1, 2 or 3 and X is any electronegative group, such as CF 3, C(SO 2 CF 3) 3, N(SO 2 F) 2, N(SO 2 CF 3) 2, OTeF 5, O(IO 2 F 2), etc.; the range of compounds is impressive, similar to that seen with the neighbouring element iodine ...
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Xenon reacts with fluorine to form numerous xenon fluorides according to the following equations: Xe + F 2 → XeF 2 Xe + 2F 2 → XeF 4 Xe + 3F 2 → XeF 6. Some of these compounds have found use in chemical synthesis as oxidizing agents; XeF 2, in particular, is commercially available and can be used as a fluorinating agent. [45]
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