Xenon
Xe
54
131.29
1s22s22p63s23p63d104s24p64d10
5s25p6
Biological significance

➤ When talking and exhaling Xenon, the lung sacs fill up and dysphonia develops.

➤ The drug 5-fluorouracil is produced by combining Xenon with compounds.

➤ Xenon is a component of the central nervous system tissues.

Excess in the body

➤ Excessive Xenon in the body causes hypoxia, which reduces the amount of oxygen in the lungs.

Deficiency in the body

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Drugs/dose

➤ Xe - dil. 80%

Conventional medicine

➤ Xenon is used in anesthesiology and radiological diagnostics of the central nervous system.


➤ Radioactive 133Xe is used in spirography (to study lung function) and electrocardiography (to study heart function).


➤ "Xenon air" (80% Xe + 20% O2) has a strong anesthetic effect.



Unconventional medicine

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Toxic effect/antidote

➤ The displacement of oxygen depends on a high Xenon content in the air, which can cause hypoxia.



➤ There is no specific antidote.

Interesting facts

➤ Xenon was the first of the inert gases to enter into a chemical reaction and the first to form a stable compound.

➤ XeF2 xenon difluoride is a strong oxidant.

➤ Xenon does not react without fluorine. All known xenon compounds are derived from its fluorides.

➤ When considering XeO3 , the explosive force is close to that of TNT.

➤ To produce 1m3 Xe, 11 million m3 of air must be processed.

➤ Sodium perxenonate Na4XeO6·6H2O and xenon perchlorate Xe(ClO4)2 are the strongest oxidants.

➤ Xenon compounds form clathrates or inclusion compounds.

Chemist William Ramsay
on how he discovered Xenon


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