Xenon's discovery concluded an intense period of research on noble gases. Much heavier than neon and krypton, it had not been explicitly predicted, and was sufficiently rare to avoid chance detection.

Xenon is a noble gas used in medicine as an anaesthetic. In low doses, exposure to xenon gas triggers the body's hypoxia, low oxygen, response. This tells the kidneys to produce erythropoietin ...

Adding the noble gas xenon when manufacturing digital memories enables a more even material coating even in small cavities. This is shown by Professor Henrik Pedersen and his research group at ...

In an ion propulsion system, electrons are fired into a magnetic field containing the noble gas xenon. When a xenon atom is hit, it loses one of its negatively charged electrons and turns into a ...

A milestone in chemistry was achieved through the use of fluorine: the discovery of the reactivity of noble gases — when xenon fluoride was prepared by Neil Bartlett in 1962 — which challenged ...

An inert and unreactive gas may not seem like an obvious candidate for treating Alzheimer’s disease, yet a new study in mice suggests that xenon might just be the breakthrough we need. Xenon is one of ...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has promised to take action over claims Russian athletes inhaled performance-enhancing ...

Argon, krypton and xenon are very unreactive. They replace the air inside the lamp, preventing the metal wire from burning away.

Argon, krypton and xenon are very unreactive. They replace the air inside the lamp, preventing the metal wire burning away.