xenon tetrafluoride

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a colorless, crystalline compound, XeF 4 , prepared by heating a gaseous mixture of fluorine and xenon.

Example Sentences

That article reported a xenon compound, xenon tetrafluoride, created at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, while acknowledging that earlier in 1962 chemist Neil Bartlett had already prepared another xenon compound, xenon-platinum hexafluoride.

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