How to Use xenon in a Sentence

xenon

noun

• No xenon to futz with, or wings to flap, or rotors to spin.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 July 2019
• The first prototypes were built over a decade ago and contained less than 50 pounds of xenon.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 31 Dec. 2019
• Then wait for a passing WIMP to bang into a xenon atom’s nucleus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• An earlier version of the experiment with 3.3 tons of xenon cost $30 million.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Two of the world’s three most sensitive xenon-tank experiments reported their latest results in October 2017.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• Rosetta's observations revealed that 67P is deficient in heavy xenon.
  — NBC News, 9 June 2017
• 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
• Pretty much nothing reacts with xenon, especially a mile underground, making it the ideal dark matter detector.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Intelligence agencies can basically sniff the air to detect decaying xenon isotopes.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024