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My Name is Xenon Im a noble gas

Pretty heavy. with 131.3 as my atomic mass

I hardly react with anything because im too cool

Im used in diferent kinds of lamps so bat that fool!

 

 

 

History
Xenon was in 1898 discovered by Scottish chemist and physicist Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), and English chemist William Travers (1872-1961). They discovery of this gas was actually very interesting. If you cool air to an extremely low temperature it becomes a liquid, and if you reheat it will turn back into a gas. Theses scientist took a portion of air and cooled it to a liquid. Then, as they reheated it, the liquid began to transform to a gas. The process is very slow, but by the time the oxygen, nitrogen, and argon had burned off, 95.5 percent of the liquid had already evaporated to gas. The small percentage left was made up of three gases, one of which they named xenon after the Latin root meaning “the strange one.”  Xenon is extremely rare, for every 1000-million in the air atoms, 87 of them are xenon atoms. 

Reactivity
Xenon is a noble gas (also called an inert gas). This makes it almost impossible for them to react with anything, since they are already stable. In 1961Neil Bartlett made the first noble gas compound with xenon and platinum, hexafluoride. It contained a solid, orange yellow compound. Xenon also reacts with fluoride a 400 C and with the presents of sunlight it can react at room temperature. Xenon and fluoride can form three different compounds: xenon di fluoride, xenon tetra fluoride, and xenon hexafluoride. Xenon and krypton are the only noble gases that have been shown to form compounds.

 

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Commercial Uses
         The gas is used to make electron tubes,stroboscopic lamp, and bactericidal lamps. When xenon gas is trapped in a tube the electrical discharge makes the xenon ignite and causes the valence electrons to start moving around. This creates a blue glowing light. Xenon has a high molecular weight so this gas can be used in probes and in nuclear energy fields. Xenon can be used in photo taking to help make a mixture creation allowing the camera to “freeze” and image and then the photo is taken. Xenon’s perxenates, (a salt of perxenic acid) are used in analytical chemistry as oxidizing agents. Xenon can also be used to ignite lazers. This strange gas can be used in pain testers. The gas molecules of xenon are so dense that they can detect small changes in circulatory blood motion
   

 

 

Other Noble Gases:

Xenon is a noble gas. There are six noble gases, helium, neon, argon, krypton, radon, and xenon. These gases are located in group 18 of the periodic table. They all have maximum number of electrons possible in there outer shell (2 for helium 8 for the rest,) which makes them stable. Although they are un-reavtive these gases have purposes of their own. Neon is used in advertising signs. Argon is used in light bulbs. Helium is used in balloons and to cool things. Te densities of noble gases increase with increasing molecular mass. Helium is about one-seventh the density of air, which is why it causes balloons to float.

Properties and Characteristics:

Xenon is a colorless odorless gas. Some might say this element is boring,

but little do they know, when ignited by electrical discharge this gas emits a beautiful neon blue glow.
Atomic Number: 54
Symbol: Xe
Atomic Mass: 131.30
Atomic Radius: 218 pm
Melting Point: 161.36 k
Boiling Point: 165.03 k
Group Name: Noble Gas
Group Number: 18
Period Number: 5
Oxidation number: 8
Protons: 54
Neutrons: 77
Electrons: 54

  

 

Isatopes of Xenon
Isatope Natural Abundance Half-Life
114Xe   10.3 sec
115Xe   18 sec
116Xe   57 sec
117Xe   61 sec
118Xe   4 min
119Xe   5.8 min
120Xe   40 min
121Xe   39 min
122Xe   20 hr
123Xe   2 hr
124Xe 0.10%  
125mXe   57 sec
125Xe   17.1 hr
126Xe 0.09%  
127mXe   69 sec
127Xe   36.3 day
128Xe 1.91%  
129mXe 8.88 day
Isatope Natural Abundance Half-Life
129Xe 26.4%
130Xe 4.1%
131mXe 11.9 day
131Xe 21.2%
132Xe
133mXe 2.19 day
133Xe 5.25 day
134Xe 10.4%
135mXe 15.3 min
135Xe 19.1 hr
136Xe 8.9%
137Xe 3.84 min
138Xe 14.1 min
139Xe 40.4 sec
140Xe 13.6 day
141Xe 1.72 sec
142Xe 1.2 sec

 

Xenon is a noble gas here are some other noble: neon, kyrpton, and argon.

 

Glossary
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Glossary


 Isotope:  - noun any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights

Compounds: -noun a combination of two or more elements or parts.

Reactivity: - noun the quality or condition of being react

Ionic compound: - noun a chemical compound of cations and anions which are held together by ionic bonds in a lattice structure

Covalent Bond: -noun the bond formed by the sharing of a pair of electrons by two atoms.

stroboscopic lamps: A lamp consisting of strobe Lights

Molecular Weight: he average weight of a molecule of an element or compound

analytical chemistry: - noun
the subdivision of chemistry dealing with the qualitative and quantitative determination of chemical components of substances

oxidizing agent: -noun substance that oxidizes another substance 

 

Bibliography
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Rossiqnoli, Marcos. Xenon Snapshots. Newyork: Winnie.
Schwatzs, Tom. "Xenon Element Facts." Chenicool. 12 Feb. 09 <http://www.chemicool.com/elements/xenon.html>.
Stone, Daniele. "Xenon." Periodic.lanl.gov. American chemical society. 20 Feb. 2009 <http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/54.html>.
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