• Question: 1) who found the element xenon?

    Asked by finlay222 to Carol, Ellie, John, Philip, Rebecca on 28 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Carol White

      Carol White answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      It was two people!

      Two chemists, William Ramsay (Scottish) and Morris Travers (English chemist) discovered zenon on the 12th of July 1898. The also discovered krypton and neon together – what a good team!

      “Xenon” comes from the Greek word “xenos” which means stranger – pretty good name as xenon is a very strange looking element!

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