Xenon | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-08

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Xenon


00:01:11 1 History
00:04:37 2 Characteristics
00:07:07 3 Occurrence and production
00:10:01 4 Isotopes
00:15:57 5 Compounds
00:16:31 5.1 Halides
00:18:30 5.2 Oxides and oxohalides
00:21:06 5.3 Other compounds
00:22:54 5.4 Clathrates and excimers
00:23:32 6 Applications
00:25:42 6.1 Illumination and optics
00:25:59 6.1.1 Gas-discharge lamps
00:26:08 6.1.2 Lasers
00:28:13 6.2 Medical
00:28:51 6.2.1 Anesthesia
00:29:00 6.2.2 Neuroprotectant
00:31:13 6.2.3 Sports doping
00:32:17 6.2.4 Imaging
00:33:07 6.2.5 Surgery
00:33:54 6.3 NMR spectroscopy
00:34:07 6.4 Other
00:35:07 7 Precautions
00:37:21 8 See also
00:39:51 9 References



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SUMMARY
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Xenon is a chemical element with symbol Xe and atomic number 54. It is a colorless, dense, odorless noble gas found in the Earth's atmosphere in trace amounts. Although generally unreactive, xenon 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 used to search for hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles and as the propellant for ion thrusters in spacecraft.Naturally occurring xenon consists of eight stable isotopes. More than 40 unstable xenon isotopes undergo radioactive decay, and the isotope ratios of xenon are an important tool for studying the early history of the Solar System. Radioactive xenon-135 is produced by beta decay from iodine-135 (a product of nuclear fission), and is the most significant (and unwanted) neutron absorber in nuclear reactors.