How to Use xenon in a Sentence
xenon
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No xenon to futz with, or wings to flap, or rotors to spin.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 July 2019
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The first prototypes were built over a decade ago and contained less than 50 pounds of xenon.
—Wired Staff, Wired, 31 Dec. 2019
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Then wait for a passing WIMP to bang into a xenon atom’s nucleus.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2016
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This latest result reveals that nothing with the right properties to excite the xenon made it through.
—Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 22 July 2016
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A new study suggests that about 20 percent of the noble gas xenon in Earth's atmosphere was delivered by comets long ago.
—NBC News, 9 June 2017
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The idea is that a dark matter particle might whoosh by a xenon atom, knocking off an electron, which LUX would detect as an increase in charge.
—Adam Mann, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2013
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An electric propulsion engine—such as a Hall thruster that ionizes xenon gas—has a high specific impulse, as much as 10 times that of NTP.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2018
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An earlier version of the experiment with 3.3 tons of xenon cost $30 million.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
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Hayabusa2 is powered by ion engines, which accelerate charged atoms of xenon with an electric field to generate thrust.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 25 June 2018
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Its understated design is highlighted by a pair of xenon headlights that swivel with the steering wheel, a unique front end and side skirts, a rear spoiler, and four exhaust tips.
—Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2018
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One of Brown’s areas of study is trying to capture dark matter interactions with normal matter in the form of liquid xenon isotopes.
—Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2019
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Instead of liquid or solid fuel, the craft was propelled by ions of xenon gas accelerated by an electric field.
—Pm Editors, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2012
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Mercury is much heavier than either xenon or krypton, so spacecraft carrying them would be able to generate more thrust.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2018
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So these experiments use vast tanks filled with liquid xenon, which is denser than solid aluminum, as dark matter detectors.
—Dan Falk /, NBC News, 7 May 2018
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His prototype uses lithium ions, which are much lighter than the xenon ions Dawn used, and therefore need less energy to attain higher velocities.
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2019
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Another wall will be taken down to create a giant room for four compressors and a backup generator that will suck up literal tons of xenon in case of an emergency.
—Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2018
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Heated front seats with eight-way power for the driver, a 7.0-inch touchscreen, 17-inch wheels, xenon headlights, remote start, dual-zone climate control, and blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert all come standard.
—Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 14 Aug. 2017
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Two of the world’s three most sensitive xenon-tank experiments reported their latest results in October 2017.
—The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
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Rosetta's observations revealed that 67P is deficient in heavy xenon.
—NBC News, 9 June 2017
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Meanwhile, dark matter hunters have enhanced an old detector design: an underground vat of liquid xenon, shielded from the noise on Earth’s surface, that’s designed to produce light should a dark matter particle make contact.
—Wired Staff, Wired, 31 Dec. 2019
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Pretty much nothing reacts with xenon, especially a mile underground, making it the ideal dark matter detector.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2019
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Over the last 30 years, as automotive lighting has graduated from incandescent bulbs to halogen, xenon and now LED, headlamps have definitely gotten brighter.
—Eric A. Taub, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
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Lauched in 2011, their LightStrike robot’s pulsed xenon lamp shoots intense UV light in millisecond flashes, deactivating a whole range of microbes, including bacteria, spores, fungi and viruses.
—Dinsa Sachan, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2020
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Intelligence agencies can basically sniff the air to detect decaying xenon isotopes.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2017
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Vast night vision camera is an accessory worth consideration — especially if your father’s vehicle happens to be an older model and not equipped with the latest lighting technology like high-intensity xenon or LED headlights.
—Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2020
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