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i will reiterate: "i was just noting the fact that xenon forms oxides" yes, it requires significant amounts of pressure and i never doubted this. i was just "noting the fact," as said multiple times above. yes i know that any compound containing oxidized "inert" gases makes for an incredibly strong oxidizing agent. thank you anyway

if you can find "elimination of" to be equivalent to "progression of" then yes, although that makes little to no sense whatsoever

thats no good at all. 2 micron al dust wont do the same will it?

i was just noting the fact that xenon forms oxides

grats on your purchases. out of curiosity how much have you spent on elements?

because of its carcinogenic properties i take it?

sorry but i have to nitpick a little. xenon can form the difluoride, tetrafluoride (hydrolyzes to form Xe, O2, HF and XeO3), hexafluoride (hydrolyzes to form XeOF4 and XeF4 and trioxide (used in lights). also, perxenates do exist, for example. i also would like to add that helium isn't going to react with things, unless you want to call an alpha particle "helium"

my heart bleeds

no, not at all. cultural diffusion does indeed occur but if allowed to do so completely, would form a homogeneous world. this homogeneous world would contain elements of many cultures and thus, among the other elements from other cultures, would lose their significance

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i have a problem with the whole "losing" and "gaining" electrons concept in many situations. example: HF is highly polar and considered ionic but it is strongly bonded. in the case of SiI4, the bonds are polar sure but electrons certainly are not gained by the iodine and lost by the silicon

i can think of others that are worse, namely plutonium, astatine (for its radioactivity), perhaps tellurium, and oh yeah, definitely fluorine

haha i know. it really does indeed make sense. well done

assimilation is the loss of culture

yeah, redox seems to be more difficult to most, altho it wasnt hard for me at all last year:\

they actually carry a negative charge

the absolute value of -3 is greater than that of -1...

what about if you reduce, say, P- to P-3?

consider oxygen. it is the 2nd most electronegative element and is found in many oxidizing polyatomic anions. fluorine is something of a beast and scientists didn't work with it much at all for a long time because basically it killed anyone who tried to get good data on it. so, that leaves oxygen, a pleasant element. oxygen reduces, gaining electrons, and thus acts as an oxidizing agent, causing other atoms to oxidize and lose electrons. with regard to the term "reduce," it doesn't really matter. it's the concepts that matter rather than the names

sounds like you know this first hand

depends on what sort of polymerized organic it is

exactly and thats why methanol wont react with aluminum

oh man this is a fun physics question, but i am intrigued nonetheless. hold on, let me check the temperature-pressure phase statistics for CO2... actually, scratch that. read below: even if you could bubble CO2 into it, it wouldn't take long for the CO2 to start dissolving in water, where some of it will form carbonic acid. this would create a vacuum and it wouldnt take long for the water to fill the bucket

best way really is just electrolyzing aqueous sodium chloride

thing is, i can't see any reason for aluminum to react with methanol. think of it; the methanol lacks significant negativity. you'd never see the aluminum attack in a way leaving Al(3x bond)C-H you wouldn't see the aluminum attack in a way leaving Al(H3CO)3 either because the H3CO- anion is harder to form than the OH- anion with the Al replacing the H