What is the difference between Xenon HID lights and Xenon gas-filled bulbs? Xenon H.I.D. (High Intensity Discharge) lighting is a superior lighting technology. Instead of having a filament inside the bulb, it is replaced with xenon gas.
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Xenon gas. Xenon gas is a fuel resource that powers only ion engines. With a density of only 0.1 kg per unit this is the lightest resource after electric charge. Uses. There are only four xenon gas related parts available at the moment. The IX-6315 Dawn Electric Propulsion System is an extremely efficient engine which consumes small amounts of xenon gas and a lot of electric charge, and produces just 2 kN of thrust, limiting its uses to small probes or rovers, for the simple reason that burn times would be extremely large in heavier craft.
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Xenon Gas. Sold by the Liter - Any quantity custom filled. Xenon is a colorless, odorless, nontoxic, nonflammable gas. Shipped as a compressed gas. A member of the group of Noble Gases. Xenon Spec SheetMSDS.
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Xenon. Xenon is a rare, odorless, colourless, tasteless, chamically unreactive gas. It was regarded as completely inert until, in 1962, Neil Barlett reported synthesis of xenon haxafluoroplatinate. In a gas filled tube xenon emits blue light when excited by electrical discharge. Applications. Xenon has relatively little commercial use.
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Two radioactive isotopes of xenon—xenon-127 and xenon-133—are used in medicine. These isotopes are used to study the flow of blood through the brain and the flow of air through the lungs. In most cases, the patient inhales the radioactive gas through a mask. The xenon gas moves through the body just like oxygen or any other gas.
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When the xenon gas ignites, it produces a vivid and bright light that is 3X more powerful than that of a halogen bulb. This technology also allows for the bulb to ignite at a higher color temperature: which gives it the white / blue coloration. Xenon gas-filled bulbs and other halogen 'xenon' bulbs are simply a standard halogen bulb that is either coated with a blue film on the outside and/or filled with a gas to imitate the look of a true xenon HID bulb. These bulbs produces much less light than xenon HID bulbs and often less than that of a standard halogen bulb. Xenon gas-filled bulbs also suffer from a short 6-month life-span. What is color temperature (K)? This is one of the biggest misconceptions regarding lighting.
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Xenon in the environment. Xenon si a trace gas in the Earth's atmosphere, occurring in 1 part in 20 million. The only commercial source of xenon is from industrial liquid-air plants. World production is less than 1 tonne per year, although reserved of xenon gas in the atmosphere amount to 2 billion tonnes. Health effects of xenon Inhalation: This gas is inert and is classified as a simple asphyxiant.
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Xenon is a noble gas. The term noble gas is used to describe the elements in Group 18 (VIIIA) of the periodic table. The periodic table is a chart that shows how chemical elements are related to one another. Noble gas suggests a group of elements that is too far above other elements to react with them.
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Note that xenon gas is extremely expensive - costing 40 per kilogram, compared to 0.3 per kilogram of monopropellant, and 0.1 per kilogram of liquid fuel + oxidizer in a 0.9:1.1 ratio.
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Xenon is a colorless, odorless gas. It has a boiling point of -108.13°C (-162.5°F) and a melting point of C. It may seem strange to talk about the melting point and boiling point of a gas. So think about the opposite of those two terms. The opposite of melting is turning from a liquid into a solid..
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Xenon gas is a fuel resource that powers only ion engines.