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Grade 10Organic Chemistry

There are 6 noble gases namely krypton,xenon,helium,argon,neon and radon.Although these are unrractive towards any chemical but compounds of krypton,xenon and radon are known.How is that possible.Explain me the phenomenon of formation of these compounds.

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8 Years agoGrade 10
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8 Years ago
Xenon has least ionisation enthalpy among noble gases therefore it forms compounds with oxygen and fluorine.