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  2. Xenon - Wikipedia

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    Xenon has been used as a general anesthetic, but it is more expensive than conventional anesthetics. [154] Xenon interacts with many different receptors and ion channels, and like many theoretically multi-modal inhalation anesthetics, these interactions are likely complementary. Xenon is a high-affinity glycine-site NMDA receptor antagonist. [155]

  3. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Xenon (Xe) 54 ξένος (xenos) Greek "foreign" From the Greek adjective ξένος (xenos): "foreign", "a stranger". Caesium (Cs) 55 caesius: Latin "blue-gray" [43] or "sky blue" descriptive (colour) From Latin caesius, which means "sky blue". Its identification was based upon the bright-blue lines in its spectrum, and it was the first ...

  4. Naming of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    For the noble gases, it arises from the Greek-adjective names of the stable noble gases (neon, argon, krypton, and xenon), with radon matching its source radium as well as adding the -on suffix. For the nonmetals, the -on was generalised to boron and silicon from the ending of "carbon".

  5. List of Microsoft codenames - Wikipedia

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    Xenon Xbox 360: Successor to the original Xbox. [202] Durango Xbox One: Successor to Xbox 360. [203] Edmonton Xbox One S Xbox One with 4K and HEVC Support. [204] Scorpio Xbox One X: Upgrade to Xbox One, announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016. Announced to have 6 TFLOPS GPU and 8-core CPU. [205] Scarlett Xbox Series X|S

  6. Noble gas compound - Wikipedia

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    Xenon is known to function as a metal ligand. In addition to the charged [AuXe 4] 2+, xenon, krypton, and argon all reversibly bind to gaseous M(CO) 5, where M=Cr, Mo, or W. P-block metals also bind noble gases: XeBeO has been observed spectroscopically and both XeBeS and FXeBO are predicted stable. [33]

  7. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    118 chemical elements have been identified and named officially by IUPAC.A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z).

  8. Xenon (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Xenon is a chemical element with symbol Xe and atomic number 54. Xenon may also refer to: Computing. Xenon (processor), the Xbox 360 CPU;

  9. Zeno (name) - Wikipedia

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    Zeno is the common anglicised form of the name Zenon (Ancient Greek: Ζήνων), derived from the theonym Zeus.Other forms of the given name include Zénon and Zenón (). ...