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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless, odorless, noble gas element found in minute quantities in the atmosphere, extracted commercially from liquefied air and used in stroboscopic, bactericidal, and laser-pumping lamps. Atomic number 54; atomic weight 131.29; melting point −111.74°C; boiling point −108.09°C; density (gas) 5.89 grams per liter; specific gravity (liquid, at −109°C) 2.95; valence 0, 2, 4, 6. cross-reference: Periodic Table.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., the heaviest of the five recently discovered elementary substances present in gaseous form in the atmosphere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A very heavy, inert gaseous element of the noble gas group, occurring in the atmosphere in the proportion of one volume is about 20 millions. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. It can be condensed to a liquid boiling at -107° C., and to a solid which melts at -111.9° C. Symbol Xe (formely also X); atomic number 54; atomic weight 131.3.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A heavy, gaseous chemical element (symbol Xe) of the noble gases group with an
atomic number of 54.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts
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While krypton has a considerable vapour pressure at the temperature of boiling air, the vapour pressure of xenon is hardly appreciable; hence their separation, although tedious, presented no particular difficulty.
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The word Xenon comes from the Greek word xenon which means stranger it was discovered by Sir William Ramsay in 1898. has an Atomic Number of 86, the Atomic Symbol Rn, and the Atomic Mass of 222. 018g / mol.
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The word Xenon comes from the Greek word xenon which means stranger it was discovered by Sir William Ramsay in 1898.
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The word Xenon comes from the Greek word xenon which means stranger it was discovered by Sir William Ramsay in 1898.
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I’ll be using a Nokia N82, which has an amazing 5-megapixel camera, brilliant in every sense of the word xenon flash and built-in GPS.
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Now, it's important to note this gas, it's called xenon 133.
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The radioactive gas xenon, which is often the byproduct of unexpected nuclear fission, was detected at the Fukushima Daiichi plant during tests.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Tepco said it may have found xenon, which is associated with nuclear fission, while examining gases taken from the reactor, according to an e-mailed statement today.
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The radioactive gas xenon, which is often the byproduct of unexpected nuclear fission, was detected at the Fukushima Daiichi plant during tests.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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Nuclear explosions produce an excited form called xenon-133m, in which the atomic nucleus is boosted to a higher-energy state, but it is not known exactly how sensitive detectors are to this form because there has been no way to make pure samples of xenon-133m with which to test them.
oroboros commented on the word xenon
Can be spelled with the Periodic Table of Elements symbols: XeNoN
December 12, 2006
reesetee commented on the word xenon
Not to be confused with a certain warrior princess.
February 14, 2007
oroboros commented on the word xenon
Xe
December 2, 2007