“I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.” IfsPerformingMonkMusic BusinessFleasWarholXenon Author:John Lennon
“There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsKindMadeIdeasRememberNamesInterestingMaterialsHundredAspectBreatheMade ItAtmosphereGreekGasPoeticTranslateIntriguingNeonXenon Author:Robert Barry
“Xenon? What kind of name is that?” – Nick “The only kind I answer to.” – Xenon “Don’t eat the help, X. We need him.” – Caleb” NeedsKindHelpingNamesAnswersCalebXenon Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.” LittlesMomentsScienceCommonMagicMemorableChemistrySaltStableTrappedCrystalsCompoundsJarsPrincetonMemorable MomentsXenon Author:Freeman Dyson
“O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, more recently, of xenon and caesium. It can be shown by simple considerations that this type of nuclear reaction may be described in an essentially classical way like the fission of a liquid drop, and that the fission products must fly apart with kinetic energies of the order of hundred million electron-volts each.” WayMayTwoScienceOrderEnergySimpleMillionsProductsTypeHundredProductionsNuclearReactionsConsiderationLiquidElectronsSplittingNucleusUraniumFissionNeutronsNuclear FissionVoltKinetic EnergyXenon Author:Lise Meitner
“I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.” StarsNobleLamentChlorineXenon Author:Jessica Stern