Chemical Formula: XeF
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How created:
heating a mixture of its
elements at 300 °C and 6
atmospheres of
pressure.
Xenon tetrafluoride is a
crystalline structure that was first made in a
laboratory in 1962 by reacting xenon and
fluorine at 6
atm and 400 °C. Xenon is the only
noble gas which is known to form an extensive series of
compounds with
fluorine and
oxygen. Fluorine and oxygen are extremely strong
oxidizing agents, but noble gases
generally tend to not form compounds with other elements.