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XENON i Th Sign up and get a rebate of upto $500* yy. denen 131283 Overview Xenon sa nable gue. The term nie gas suse to dezenbe the somes in Group 18 (Anowledge/Neble_oxs he (VILA) of he period abo. The pero tabi is achat that shows how chemical eemants ar reited to one anche. "Nobe gas" suggests a goUD of elements tat too fr shove (ter elements oreact with them. The noble gazes are alo called the nat /anowadge/ert. irs) gases, Tha term has the some meaning, Te nese ‘00s ony reac wih the elents under very unusual cumstances. enone very ten the atmeapher. ts sundancs 6 estima o be about 0.1 pars per milion. Xenon doos not have many practical appcstions Most, ts used tol specatzed amps. ‘svmaot xe ‘ATOMIC NUMBER St ‘ATOMIC MASS. 13129 Famity Gop 18 (4) Noble gas bromncianon \ sere Discovery and naming 100k hema ‘0 evan inert Ye oe ‘mean he sare ng a pes ‘mau tw sme Wing a "On" Gane mor than a handed years of caret research to understand the composition ofan the wary 1700s, tey between the around us and gases, ke exygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen. They used the word "alto were very dticut to study So took wong tme to igure out how various ‘as" and “gnees" fered trom each lar oerpaeee eset 174 hh rtp Pete (75100 mld a cote pane ttc -fom (ie fo be oat wna nance’ ™” Senile. These includ nitrogen (hrowtadge trogen Nn carbon dont, and eer rable gaa. One othe ast ‘ano was acovred 188 by Seth hat ad es Mt nyt Se Wika Fanay (1821919 an rh chest Mors Wan vr (1872196) Rarey Tenuta omaa er dace Hawn tay ee ee sco ta very on ‘4 stonce Aa hak a wrayer hanom Hom gst oat Aa warmaup, changes back ge. Bl i change doe not tka pace Se noean ter, stags argon UA CTArgenhe) Die | bale ‘HS ats ga ag ae TREE ow tA etme ‘Sppoate of boing is "turing fom a gas nto a haus |, ast boing ptt oon tongrse hh gs tunes The es ere emperature at which Bquid xenon tums into a sold, = wwe Soppentet nee tan amy The denaty of xenon gas 8.8971 grams per iar. Tht makes xenon abou fur tenes as dense aac Chemical properties In tho wary 17008, they didnot even understand the diterence between the ai around sand gases ke oxygen carbon, ke ‘x9 carton donde, androgen. They used the word ar to mean the ame th ing as ga" mosphere contains about 0.1 pat per milion of xenon, Studies indcat thatthe atmosphere of Mas may contain about the same mount of ‘enon, perhaps 0.08 parts per mitlon, The element isnot known to occur inthe Earth's erst Isotopes ‘Nine naturaty occuring isotopes of xenon wis. They fe xenen-126,xenen-126, xenon 128, xane-129, nenon-190, xenon-131, xBn0n-192, xenon 134, {298 enon-198 sotopes are two or ore fos oan dament.ntapee dite ram eachother according t hae mass number. The rumber writen 1 he "ht of the element's names the mass number. The mass nunber represent the number of proton lus neeronsin the nucleus ofan ato of he ‘ement. The number a protons deternines the elmer, but the numba ct netors nto atom of anyone mort ca vary. Each vation is an isotope. Atleast 18 radooctve istopes Vknoweiga/Radionlse hn of xenon are known ao. radioactive setope fanowedgavsctope none that ‘roaks apart and gives ft ome form tradition (knowedga/Rasaton mm), Raseactielectopes ar produced when very smal partes ae fired at ‘toms, These parties sick n te atoms and make them rcoactve. “wo radioactive sotope of xenon ~xenon-127 and xnon-133—are used medicine. These lotopes av used os the ow of bod trough the brain and the ow of trough thugs. In most cases, the patent intles he radoactve gas Bough a mask. The enon gas moves trough the BOY asthe oxygen or anyother gas. As travels trough the boy, he eran scope gives of aaton. Theadltion canbe Getected by messing devices held over the body Doctors can tel whether te patent sung ae ware propery. Extraction enon is produced inthe same way was decovered, quid ae alowed to evaporate, Whan mos ther gases have bold of, xenon islet behind. The technques used today are much beter than thoes used by Ramsay and Travers, of coe. Kis now evel easy to aotine the xenon gas in aby tis retro Uses ‘re pemary uso of non in lames. When an eect cues passed hugh # go, ean ge ight. Furessnt VRnowtedge/Rvorecence Mt) lamps and non ight are examples of he process. The ind and cle of ight gv ff epand on to gas ued inte lame. Xenon a used when avery ‘bot, sunk ight is neaded. Fr exam, the ash unt aed bight ight used by photographer ar often made wth xenon gs Urals (knowiedgeUtravclet tights used to striize laboratory equipment may ls certain xenon. Te ight roduc strong enough oki Dootara Xenon ao ued nthe manutoctue of tobe igh. Aetobe ih produces a very Big, tee ight ver short pues, Svobe hhis pear oases the movement ofan cbect. Each timo the ight ashes on, shines on he moving object ora racton ofa second. To objets maton Can be broken down into ary number of very short ital ‘Compounds Sofa anon compounds ae onl Iboratory costes. They havea practic! aplston. (ee under ‘Chemica! properties") Two adoactv isotopes of xno ae used to study the fowof Bond though the bran andthe Now os trough the ings Health effects enone harmless ga, Some of ts compounds, homora arto

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