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Xenon – Xenon – Xénon – Xenón – キセノン – Ксенон – 氙
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Multilingual dictionary
Indo-European
Xenon Latin— Germanic
Xenon AfrikaansXenon Danish Xenon German Xenon English Xenon Faroese Xenon Frisian (West) Xenon Icelandic Xenon Luxembourgish Xenon Dutch Xenon Norwegian Xenon Swedish — Italic
Xenón AragoneseXenon Aromanian Xenón Asturian Xenó Catalan Xenón Spanish Xénon French Xenon Friulian Xenon Galician Xeno Italian Xéen Lombard Xenon Occitan Xénon Portuguese Xenon Romanian - Moldovan — Slavic
Ксенон [Ksenon] BulgarianKsenon Bosnian Ксенон, Ксэнон [ksenon, ksènon] Belarusian Xenon Czech Ksenon Croatian Ksenón Kashubian Ксенон [Ksenon] Macedonian Ksenon Polish Ксенон [Ksenon] Russian Xenón Slovak Ksenon Slovenian Ксенон [Ksenon] Serbian Ксенон [ksenon] Ukrainian — Baltic
Ksenonas LithuanianKsenons Latvian Ksenuons Samogitian — Celtic
Ksenon BretonXenon Welsh Xeanón Gaelic (Irish) Xeanon Gaelic (Scottish) Xenon Gaelic (Manx) Xenon Cornish — Other Indo-European
Ξενο [Xeno] GreekՔսենոն [k'senon] Armenian Ksenon, ²Xenoni Albanian — Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Ksenon KurdishКсенон [ksenon] Ossetian Ксенон [Ksenon] Tajik — Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
জেনন [jenana] Bengaliگزنون [gznwn] Persian ઝેનોનનો [jhenonano] Gujarati ज़ेनान [jenāna] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Ksenoon EstonianKsenon Finnish Xenon Hungarian Ксенон [Ksenon] Komi Ксенон [Ksenon] Mari Зенон [zenon] Moksha Ksenoon Võro Altaic
Ksenon AzerbaijaniКсенон [Ksenon] Chuvash Ксенон [ksenon] Kazakh Ксенон [Ksenon] Kyrgyz Ксенон [ksenon] Mongolian Ksenon Turkish كسېنون [ksenon] Uyghur Ksenon Uzbek Other (Europe)
Xenona Basqueქსენონი [k'senoni] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
إكسينون [zīnūn] Arabicקסנון [ksenon] Hebrew Żenon, ²Xenu Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Siên (氙) Hakkaキセノン [kisenon] Japanese 크세논, 2제논 [keusenon, jenon] Korean ซีนอน [sīnon] Thai Xenon Vietnamese 氙 [xian1 / sin1] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Xenon CebuanoXenon Indonesian Xenon Māori Xenon, ²Senon Malay Other Asiatic
സെനൊണ് [senoṇ] Malayalamசெனன் [ceṉaṉ] Tamil Africa
Zenoni LingalaXenone Sesotho Zenoni Swahili North-America
Xenon NahuatlSouth-America
Senun QuechuaCreole
Ksenoni Sranan TongoArtificial
Ksenono EsperantoNew names
Zenon Atomic ElementsNoble Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
Xenon occurs in slight traces in gases within the Earth and is present to an extent of about 0.0000086 percent, or about one part in 10,000,000, by volume of dry air. Xenon was the last noble gas to be discovered. In the sequence of several studies made by Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916) and Morris W. Travers (1872-1961), in 1898, and by repeated fractionation of Krypton an extremely dense gas was obtained that those two scientists were unable to identify (12 July 1898). The spectroscopic analysis of that gas revealed that was a new element that was named Xenon. This name derives from the Greek word ξενος [xenos] = strange. Xenon is used in lamps that produce intense, extremely short flashes of light, such as stroboscopes and lights for high-speed photography. When a charge of electricity is passed through the gas at low pressure, it emits a flash of bluish-white light; at higher pressures white light resembling daylight is emitted. Xenon flash lamps are used to activate ruby lasers.
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