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RECENTLY, Stein1 presented a chemical method of removing radioactive xenon from the effluent gases of nuclear power plants and fuel reprocessing plants. His chemical oxidant, O2+SbF6â, successfully trapped xenon and radon, but not krypton. This result is reasonable if the initial reaction is electron transfer from the noble gas, Ng, to the O2+ cation. Multistep fluorine (F and Fâ) transfer then produces NgF+. More quantitatively, the experimental ionization potentials for Rn and Xe, 10.748 eV and 12.130 eV (ref. 2) are, respectively, less than and commensurate with that of O2, 12.07 eV (ref. 3). Accordingly, electron transfer may be expected. Because the ionization potential of Kr is2 13.999 eV, however, no reaction is expected between O2+ and Kr.
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LIEBMAN, J. Oxidant for Trapping Atmospheric Radiokrypton. Nature 244, 84â85 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/244084a0
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