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Life Sciences => The Environment => Topic started by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 16/06/2023 09:34:21

Title: What would it be like if our planet had more xenon in it's atmosphere?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 16/06/2023 09:34:21

Let's say our planet's atmosphere somehow increased its Xe percentage from 0.0000086% to .005%?

Title: Re: What would it be like if our planet had more xenon in it's atmosphere?
Post by: paul cotter on 16/06/2023 10:06:08

The principle change would be that certain hi-spec discharge lamps and strobe tubes would be cheaper to manufacture and the practice of zenon anaesthesia would become more practical.

Title: Re: What would it be like if our planet had more xenon in it's atmosphere?
Post by: alancalverd on 16/06/2023 10:49:28

And we'd have to rename the gas. χενον means "stranger" but it would now be relatively familiar.

Title: Re: What would it be like if our planet had more xenon in it's atmosphere?
Post by: Bored chemist on 16/06/2023 11:15:30

Xenon would become roughly as "cheap" as neon (0.0018% of the atmosphere) - which is actually quite expensive.
About ?4 per litre.
https://www.boconline.co.uk/shop/ProductDisplay?storeId=715839134&catalogId=&productId=3074457345617269181&langId=101

I'm not sure anyone would really notice.

This might get cheaper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_gas_MRI

Any thoughts Alan? More your field than mine.

Title: Re: What would it be like if our planet had more xenon in it's atmosphere?
Post by: alancalverd on 16/06/2023 19:29:48

I've never used it, but if the cost of gas is significant you can recycle a lot of exhalate!