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On Tue, 27 Sep 1994, A.APPLEYARD wrote: > > ... there are no compounds with bound helium (or any other of the "Noble > Gases", for that matter). > Oh yes there are! XeF2, XeF4, XeF6, XeO3, XeO4, H2XeO4, Na4XeO6, KrF2, RnF2, > etc etc; the first was XePtF6 in 1962. Helium & neon & argon won't combine, > but krypton and xenon and radon sure will!, with the right catalyst. Xenon > ain't so noble after all, when Miss Fluorine's free for the taking! O.K., O.K.....so I over-stepped my bounds, and my undergraduate chemistry teacher fed me some mis-information, and I should just stick to talking about diving stuff. All I really care about is that I'll be able to afford to buy helium for plenty of time to come, until the time we no longer need helium for deep diving :-) So far, though, at least I seem to have been correct about helium not binding to anything..... Aloha, (and thanks to everyone who set me straight on the not-so-noble gases in the lower right portion of the periodic table) Rich deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*
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