Xenon (Xe) chemistry, and noble gas reactions in general, may not seem like a productive field of research; noble-gases are commonly written off as chemically inert. However, ...

Xenon is even used to manufacture a drug called 5-fluorouracil, which is used to treat certain types of cancer, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. Current research There are several ...

The Chemistry of Xenon. Xenon is one of the six noble gases, so-named because they are (mostly) inert, just like the noble metals (gold, platinum, rhodium, others). All of them are in Group VIII on ...

Nature Chemistry - Like all noble gases, xenon is colourless, odourless and inflammable — but it is also more reactive, and much rarer, than its lighter relatives.

The results of their work, "Xenon oxides and silicates at high pressures," were published Nov. 11 in Nature Chemistry.. Dr. Oganov and his team used Oganov's novel method for crystal structure ...

Four climbers went up and down Everest in under a week with the help of xenon gas—a record-breaking ascent that has ignited controversy in the mountaineering world.

This chemical property makes them highly reactive and challenging to handle, requiring special techniques and equipment to grow crystals large enough for X-ray diffraction analysis. Therefore, ...

The processes described above — hyperpolarizing the xenon, caging it in biosensors, and building up depolarized xenon in the immediate vicinity of the target through chemical exchange and ...

Nature Chemistry - Xenon is an inert element at ambient conditions but may become reactive under pressure. It has now been predicted that pressure stabilizes increasing oxidation states of Xe atoms ...

The entire history of the universe is but a fleeting moment in time compared with the half-life of xenon-124. Clocking in at a staggering 1.8 × 10 22 years, it’s the longest half-life ever ...

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, admits to being shocked when, also in 2000, chemists in Berlin reported a compound of xenon and gold – the metal gold is ...

Standard magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, is a superb diagnostic tool but one that suffers from low sensitivity, requiring patients to remain motionless for long periods of time inside noisy ...