[ExI] Carbides (Was: hacked email)

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 8:35 AM
To: ExI chat list
Subject: Re: [ExI] Carbides (Was: hacked email)

 

Trivia for me:  did they ever find a compound like xenon tetrafluoride for the other inert gases?  bill w

 

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:19 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

 

 

A long time ago I heard they did the same trick with radon, but as I understand it they need to keep both compounds positively charged or it spontaneously decays (chemically).  Think on that of a minute.  You have a chemical which will react with anything, paired to a chemical which reacts with nothing, see who gets their way.  Radon tetrafluoride: every time a radon atom decays (nuclear, half life about 4 days) it releases five fluorine atoms to go off and gnaw an electron off of the first thing it sees.  That must be some really nasty stuff.

spike

 

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