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Chemistry in its element: xenon
the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. When William Ramsay named his newly-discovered element after the Greek Xenon for stranger, I'm sure he had no idea just how strange and important this ...
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Xenon out of its shell
But Ramsey established their position between halogens and alkali metals, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 for these elemental contributions. Xenon's discovery concluded an ...
A Breath Away From a Cure: How Xenon Gas Could Transform Alzheimer’s Treatment
A breakthrough study highlights Xenon gas as a potential game-changer in treating Alzheimer’s disease, demonstrating its ...
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Rare glimpse of ‘ghostly’ neutrino fog detected by dark matter experiments in a first
This discovery is reported by researchers from XENON and PandaX — two scientific experiments that aim to detect dark matter, operating independently in Italy and China respectively.
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Metals, non-metals and compoundsChemical properties of the noble gases
Argon, krypton and xenon are very unreactive. They replace the air inside the lamp, preventing the metal wire burning away.