Re: Xenon compounds are much more variable than (say) Argon ones,was Re: frozen xenonauts

From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 08:51:01 MDT


It appears as if Spike Jones <spike66@attglobal.net> wrote:
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|Eugene Leitl wrote:
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|> Uh. XeF6 is reactive as hell (it hydrolyzes to XeO3 in presence of water).
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|XeF6 hydrolyzes to XeO3? Transmutation of elements?
|Dontcha hate it when you goof while pointing out someone
|elses goof? {8^D spike

Yes, you goofed alright. !-]

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Hydrolyzation:

XeF + 3 H O -> XeO + 6 HF
   6 2 3

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BTW, the ``HF'' compound is highly reactive, corrosive, and, very poisonous
     for humans.



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