• Xenon nitrate, also called xenon dinitrate, is an inorganic compound consisting of one xenon atom bonded to two nitrate groups. It can be made by reacting...
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    Xenon fluoride nitrate, also known as fluoroxenonium nitrate, is the chemical compound with formula FXeONO2. This compound is formed via the reaction:...
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    Titanium tetraazide Triazidomethane Oxides of xenon: Xenon dioxide Xenon oxytetrafluoride Xenon tetroxide Xenon trioxide A secondary explosive is less sensitive...
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    and these required specialist projection skills to handle. Like nitrate film prints, xenon arc bulbs require special safety precautions: if handled incorrectly...
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  • acid – H4XeO6 Xenon difluoride – XeF2 Xenon hexafluoride – XeF6 Xenon hexafluoroplatinate – Xe[PtF6] Xenon tetrafluoride – XeF4 Xenon tetroxide – XeO4...
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  • fifth period contains 18 elements, beginning with rubidium and ending with xenon. As a rule, period 5 elements fill their 5s shells first, then their 4d...
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  • Fluoride nitrates are mixed anion compounds that contain both fluoride ions and nitrate ions. Compounds are known for some amino acids and for some heavy...
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  • during nuclear reactions have a high neutron absorption capacity, such as xenon-135 (microscopic cross-section σ = 2,000,000 barns (b); up to 3 million...
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    compounds are used in photographic and X-ray film. Dilute solutions of silver nitrate and other silver compounds are used as disinfectants and microbiocides...
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  • ammonium nitrate, a synthetic rubber such as HTPB, PBAN, or Polyurethane (or energetic polymers such as polyglycidyl nitrate or polyvinyl nitrate for extra...
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    in 1790 when it was found that nitrogen was present in nitric acid and nitrates. Antoine Lavoisier suggested instead the name azote, from the Ancient Greek:...
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    fission products, passing through various isotopes of iodine and xenon. Because iodine and xenon are volatile and can diffuse through nuclear fuel or air, radioactive...
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    (Yb) (Yb1.43Lu0.23Er0.17Tm0.08Y0.05Dy0.03Ho0.02)2Si2O7, lowering the cost. Xenon is also a strong neutron absorber as a gas, and can be used for controlling...
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    gas compounds include several derivatives of xenon and krypton. Examples: xenon hexafluoride XeF6, xenon trioxide XeO3, and krypton difluoride KrF2 Usually...
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    daughter xenon-129. Traces of iodine-129 still exist today, as it is also a cosmogenic nuclide, formed from cosmic ray spallation of atmospheric xenon: these...
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    "Potentially neuroprotective and therapeutic properties of nitrous oxide and xenon". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1053 (1): 289–300. Bibcode:2005NYASA1053...
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    As the extra xenon-135 is transmuted to xenon-136, which is much less a neutron poison, within a few hours the reactor experiences a "xenon burnoff (power)...
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  • popularity of cinema and increasing concerns over the safety risks of nitrate film. Projection booths that were segregated and equipped with fire prevention...
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    oxygen led to the hypothesis that xenon might be oxidized by PtF 6, resulting in discovery of the first xenon compound xenon hexafluoroplatinate Xe+ PtF− 6)...
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    stable xenon-136. With the reactor power reduced, high quantities of previously produced iodine-135 were decaying into the neutron-absorbing xenon-135 faster...
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    Swedish chemist Carl Gustaf Mosander in 1839 as an impurity in cerium nitrate – hence the name lanthanum, from the ancient Greek λανθάνειν (lanthanein)...
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    Oxygen Sulfur Fluorine Chlorine Bromine Iodine Helium Neon Argon Krypton Xenon Radon Three more are commonly classed as nonmetals, but some sources list...
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  • IO2F3 and IOF5 are also known. Xenon forms xenon oxytetrafluoride (XeOF4), xenon dioxydifluoride (XeO2F2) and xenon oxydifluoride (XeOF2). A selection...
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    were the production of glass, bleach, soap and gunpowder as potassium nitrate. Potassium soaps from animal fats and vegetable oils were especially prized...
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  • no longer in use) UN 2067 5.1 Ammonium nitrate fertilizers; uniform non-segregating mixtures of ammonium nitrate with added matter which is inorganic and...
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    and 134 through 138. Barium-130 undergoes very slow radioactive decay to xenon-130 by double beta plus decay, with a half-life of (0.5–2.7)×1021 years...
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  • (When you expose powdered silver nitrate to sunlight, it turns black as ink), and also its effect on paper; silver nitrate wrapped in paper for a year turned...
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    Hughes Research Laboratory performed studies finding xenon gas to be a suitable replacement. Xenon is now the preferred propellant for ion engines, as...
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    and fission products. A spilled vial of radioactive material like uranyl nitrate may contaminate the floor and any rags used to wipe up the spill. Cases...
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    Julius Jr. (1995). "Control of Self-Assembly and Reversible Encapsulation of Xenon in a Self-Assembling Dimer by Acid-Base Chemistry". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117...
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