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This was finally confirmed in 1962, when Neil Bartlett observed that xenon reacted with vapours of platinum hexafluoride (PtF 6) to form a yellow–orange solid compound — a discovery widely ...
Sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6, is widely used in the electrical industry to prevent short circuits and accidents. But leaks of the little-known gas in the UK and the rest of the EU in 2017 were the ...