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Xenon is amazingly one of the most boring word and
topic imaginable.
Seriously. Xenon fulfills the need for “X is for…”
Seriously. Xenon fulfills the need for “X is for…”
Even so, here are a few, very few facts about Xenon:
…Xenon’s symbol on Elements chart is Xe
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…Xenon’s atomic # is 54.
…Xenon’s weight is 131.293.
…Word origin is a Greek term for “Stranger”.
…It was discovered by Scottish William Ramsey and
English Morris Travers in 1898.
…It was totally useless until it was combined with fluorine
and oxygen to produce light.
Huzzah for X is for Xenon!
Wait, just a minute now...Xenon is actually useful, in that car headlights blind us all now and then. And, Xenon would be a cool name to give to your newborn child. And, if you want to mess with someone's mind, you could throw Xenon in a conversation just to confuse people. It would elevate you into the zone of gifted intelligentsia. Think what you will.
Wait, just a minute now...Xenon is actually useful, in that car headlights blind us all now and then. And, Xenon would be a cool name to give to your newborn child. And, if you want to mess with someone's mind, you could throw Xenon in a conversation just to confuse people. It would elevate you into the zone of gifted intelligentsia. Think what you will.
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So....every xenon is a friend you haven't met yet????
ReplyDeleteYou have me, Delores. What a wit!
DeleteRocking the X Factor. That's kind of a hard one, it's cool that the couple I've seen this morning aren't even duplicates!
ReplyDeleteAn X word is a hard one to find, too.
DeleteSince I barely passed Chrmistry, I looked the word up. I also found that I could buy it on e-Bay. I have now learned two things today, and that is two more than I learned yesterday.
ReplyDeleteBuy it on e-Bay? Really?
DeleteName your kid Xenon - that would be a cruel trick.
ReplyDeleteOh, it would brand him for the rest of his life. Or maybe he would like its uniqueness.
DeleteXenon couldn't be stranger? lol
ReplyDeleteI know, right? A great word.
DeleteXenon! Yeah!
ReplyDeleteStephen Tremp
A-Z Co-host
X is for Xenoglossy
Xenoglossy...I'll be over shortly.
DeleteRamsey and Travers may have discovered it but they sure couldn't spell it. What's an X doing where a Z should be? Zenon --is it too much to ask of science?
ReplyDeleteWho knows? Maybe there was a place for X on the table of elements
DeleteI wondered what you would post for X.
ReplyDeleteXenon is a word I probably wouldn't ever use, it just doesn't come up in conversation very often.
No. No weird names! Although, this one I can pronounce.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we could introduce Xenon to Xena Princess Warrior. I could definitely see some significant sparks between them.
ReplyDeleteJulie
My husband once explained the "noble gas" triad to me. Before I nodded off: helium, neon, and xenon. Xenon--so glad I had a chance to use it.
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