Comments on: Xenon Element Facts

By: Cheyenne C

Cheyenne C — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:47:59 +0000

Okay what medicines can this element make ?

By: monkey

monkey — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:11:12 +0000

Thanks Doug!

By: Doug Stewart

Doug Stewart — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:19:56 +0000

Hi Emma,

Chemically and physically, xenon has little in common with other elements in period 5. Compared with other group 5 elements, xenon does not form compounds as readily, and it’s a gas at room temperature, while all the others are solids.

Similarities I can immediately think of are that, like iodine, xenon is a very poor electrical conductor and like tellurium and iodine, xenon is a very poor thermal conductor.

(Usually when we talk about a period of the periodic table, we consider the trends in properties – how properties change – as we look from left to right in the table. Similar properties are more often found within element groups than periods. )

By: Emma

Emma — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:55:58 +0000

what does xenon have in common with the rest of period 5

By: Doug Stewart

Doug Stewart — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:32:02 +0000

Yes, it’s part of the air we breathe. There’s not much of it compared with nitrogen and oxygen: just 0.000009 percent of air’s volume is xenon.

If you drained all the water from an olympic sized swimming pool, you’d have a pool containing 2,500,000 liters of air. If you could capture all of the xenon in that volume of air, you would get 225 ml of xenon – enough to fill a cup.

By: monkey

monkey — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:28:37 +0000

Is it naturally occurring on earth?