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xenon

/zee-non, zen-on/US // ˈzi nɒn, ˈzɛn ɒn //UK // (ˈzɛnɒn) //

氙气,氙气灯,氙灯

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chemistry.

    • : a heavy, colorless, chemically inactive, monatomic gaseous element used for filling radio, television, and luminescent tubes. Symbol: Xe; atomic weight: 131.30; atomic number: 54.

Examples

  • So this gas giant should not have acquired nitrogen, argon, krypton or xenon ice.

  • If so, that means Saturn arose in a warmer region and so should not have acquired nitrogen, argon, krypton or xenon ice.

  • A nearly 4-ton tank of xenon will start a two-year run in March at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy.

  • They measured the amount of different isotopes of xenon trapped in quartz crystals.

  • The remaining elements of this group—neon, krypton, and xenon—have been obtained from liquid air.

  • The evidence for the existence of krypton and xenon is, however, inconclusive.

  • Aristarchus combated “the paradox of Xenon,” and it does not seem to have had much acceptance in antiquity.

  • That report was enough to make a man quit his job and go to Xenon to start a chicken ranch or grow oranges.

  • The animals on Xenon are immune from them, but when they land on a man, they send out tiny rootlets that are like minute hairs.