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- Name : Xenon
- Symbol : Xe
- Atomic # : 54
- Atom weight: 131.3
- Melting P. : -111.9
- Boiling P. : -107.1
- Oxidation : 0
- Pronounced : ZEE-non
- From : Greek xenos, "strange"
- Identified : Sir William Ramsay and M. W. Travers in 1898
- Appearance : Heavy, colorless, and odorless noble gas
- Note : The rarest of the gassy elements in the earth's atmosphere
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- [Properties]
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- Xenon is one of the Group-0, noble gasses. It is a heavy gas - about 4.5
- times heavier than air - and is colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
- Xenon is recovered on a commercial scale by the fractional distillation
- of liquid air.
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