Chemicals/Radons
Radon is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas. Template:Clear
Emissions
Gases
Radon is, under standard conditions, gaseous and easily inhaled, and therefore a health hazard.
Radon is "one of the noble gases."[1]
The molecules Template:Chem and RnXe were found to be significantly stabilized by spin-orbit coupling.[2]
Radon is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless[3] gas and therefore is not detectable by human senses alone. At standard temperature and pressure, it forms a monatomic gas with a density of 9.73 kg/m3, about 8 times the density of the Earth's atmosphere at sea level, 1.217 kg/m3.[4] It is one of the densest gases at room temperature and is the densest of the noble gases. Template:Clear
Liquids
Although colorless at standard temperature and pressure, when cooled below its freezing point of Template:Convert, it emits a brilliant radioluminescence that turns from yellow to orange-red as the temperature lowers.[5] Upon condensation, it glows because of the intense radiation it produces.[6] It is sparingly soluble in water, but more soluble than lighter noble gases. It is appreciably more soluble in organic liquids than in water. Its solubility equation is as follows,[7][8][9]
- ,
where is the molar fraction of Radon, is the absolute temperature, and and are solvent constants. Template:Clear
Alloys
Radon carbonyl (RnCO) has been predicted to be stable and to have a linear molecular geometry.[10] Template:Clear
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See also
- Argons
- Bromines
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- Chlorines
- Fluorines
- Gases
- Geochemistry
- Heliums
- Hydrogens
- Iodines
- Kryptons
- Liquids
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- Oxidation numbers
- Oxygens
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- Reactions
- Rocks as chemicals
- Rocks
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- Thoriums
- Volcanoes
- Xenons