Can someone tell me about Xenon compounds?

Question

Can someone tell me about Xenon compounds?

Answer 1

Xenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [28] Following this, many additional compounds of xenon have been discovered. ... Most of the more than 80 [66] [67] xenon compounds found to date contain ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon - 224k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

More results from en.wikipedia.org »

WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements | Xenon | Essential ... Before 1962, it was generally assumed that xenon and other noble gases were unable to form compounds. Among the compounds of xenon now reported are xenon ...

www.webelements.com/xenon/ - 31k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Compunds Xenon, while an extremely non-reactive element, has many known compounds. ... They alone produce more than 80 xenon compounds. Sodium perxenate, xenon ...

web1.caryacademy.org/chemistry/rushin/... - 17k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

MASS SPECTROMETRY OF CORROSIVE OXIDIZERS AND XENON COMPOUNDS A mass spectrometric study of reactive and corrosive oxidizers was successfully accomplished using a double-focusing mass spectrometer with a monel-Teflon ...

stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord... - 4k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

by BB Goshgarian - 1965 - All 2 versions

Xenon Compounds Xenon Compounds Xenon (stranger in Greek) was discovered by Ramsay & Travers in 1898. For many years it had been assumed that xenon and other noble gases ...

mooni.fccj.org/~ethall/2045/xenon.htm - 2k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Xenon trioxide, which is highly explosive, has been prepared. More than 80 xenon compounds have been made with xenon chemically bonded to fluorine and ...

Answer 2

I don't know how extensive your knowledge of chemistry is, so I'll keep this pretty simple. Please forgive me if it's too simple; I have no wish to insult your intelligence, but I don't want to be too technical either. Fluorine and oxygen have a tremendous affinity for electrons and wish to fill theit outer shells. In fact, fluorine is so reactive that you can cause glass to burn in an atmosphere of fluorine. As you go down the family of noble gasses, the electrons are less strongly held because of their distance from the nucleus and their shielding from its attraction by the underlying cloud of electrons. It turns out that when you get to xenon the attraction of fluorine for electrons is greater than that of xenon for its outermost electrons, and fluorine can actually force xenon to form chemical bonds. Most of them are very unstable and difficult to form, but they have ben made. Theoretically, compounds with radon should be even easier to form,(for the same reasons). However, since radon has a half-life of ~ 4 days, it difficult to study their properties. Oxygen has almost as high an electron affinity as fluorine and will form compounds with xenon too, but since it's affinity is not as high, the bonds are even more unstable, harder to make, and many are explosive. It's possible to make a few compounds with argon too, but since the electrons in argon are even more tightly held, these compounds are even harder to make and more unstable. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

try typing in xenon and xenon compounds in google...you'll learn more if you actually do the work yourself rather than having people who already know the answer do it for you.