xenon
Sign in to saveXenon is a chemical element; it has symbol Xe and atomic number 54. It is a dense, colorless, odorless noble gas found in Earth's atmosphere in trace amounts. Although generally unreactive, it can undergo a few chemical reactions such as the formation of xenon hexafluoroplatinate, the first noble gas compound to be synthesized.
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Xenon is a rare, colorless, odorless gas found in Earth's atmosphere that belongs to a group of elements called noble gases, which are generally very unreactive. It became scientifically significant when researchers discovered that xenon could actually form chemical compounds, challenging the long-held belief that noble gases could never react with other elements.
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Article
34 sectionsContents
- History
- Characteristics
- Occurrence and production
- The missing Xe problem
- Commercial
- Solar System
- Stellar
- Nuclear fission
- Isotopes
- Nuclear spin
- From fission
- Cosmic processes
- Compounds
- Halides
- Oxides and oxohalides
- Other compounds
- Clathrates and excimers
- Applications
- Illumination and optics
- Gas-discharge lamps
- Lasers
- Medical
- Anesthesia
- Neuroprotectant
- Sports doping and mountaineering
- Imaging
- Surgery
- NMR spectroscopy
- Other
- Precautions
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Xenon is a chemical element; it has symbol Xe and atomic number 54. It is a dense, colorless, odorless noble gas found in Earth's atmosphere in trace amounts. Although generally unreactive, it can undergo a few chemical reactions such as the formation of xenon hexafluoroplatinate, the first noble gas compound to be synthesized.
Xenon is used in flash lamps and arc lamps, and as a general anesthetic. The first excimer laser design used a xenon dimer molecule (Xe2) as the lasing medium, and the earliest laser designs used xenon flash lamps as pumps. Xenon is also used to search for hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles and as a propellant for ion thrusters in spacecraft.