What are the uses/applications of noble gas compounds?

Question

i mean the compounds that noble gases create with non-noble gases...such as XeF2...i mean the actual COMPOUNDS and not the element itself

Answer 1

Helium used in balloons and airships. It is much less dense than air, so balloons filled with it float upwards.
Used with O2 for deep sea dives
To inflate the tyres of large aircraft

Neon Used in advertising signs. It glows when electricity is passed through it, and different coloured 'neon lights' can be made by coating the inside of the glass tubing with other chemicals.

Argon Used in light bulbs. The very thin metal filament inside the bulb would react with oxygen and burn away if the bulb were filled with air instead of argon. As argon is unreactive, it stops the filament burning away.

Krypton Used in lasers. Krypton lasers are used by surgeons to treat certain eye problems and to remove birthmarks.
in lamps used in photographic flash units, in stroboscopic lamps used in lighthouses
Actually, there are quite a variety of xenon compounds, and they are not
that unstable. Some of them would have uses if xenon were not so costly.
(Perxenic acid, HXeO4, is one of the strongest aqueous oxidizing agents
known, for example.) The Xe-F reaction does not require particularly
special conditions; the reason why it went unsuspected for so long is
that fluorine is dangerous and xenon is rare and expensive, and the
combination makes experimenting difficult. You pretty well have to
start with the fluorides to prepare other xenon compounds, so that
stalled things completely.

Krypton compounds are fewer and less stable. Argon chemistry just barely
exists under normal conditions. Neon and helium, forget it, unless you
resort to extreme conditions or use spectroscopy to look for transient
compounds with very short lives

Answer 2

Yea, Like Xenon tetrafluoride...and don't hear to Joker, Magnesium nor Oxygen are noble gases. Xenon could make a pair distinctive compounds, and so can the different noble gases, yet there isn't too many compounds they make with different components. The valence shell of noble gases follows the octet rule of having 8 electrons interior the valence shell, which makes the atom energetically good and much less probable to react with different components.

Answer 3

The principal use of rare-gas compounds at present is as the light-emitting component in lasers. Mixtures of 10% Xe, 89% Ar, and 1% F2, for example, can be "pumped," or excited, with high-energy electrons to form excited XeF molecules, which emit a photon with a wavelength of 354 nm.

The gas xenon, which does not have any negative physiological effects, could be used to produce new anesthetic compounds. Another possible use would be the production of new fuels that would be more energy efficient and less polluting than those now in use. Other applications could be in the creation of any number of new chemical-based products used in industry, medicine or agriculture that would be less polluting of the environment than materials currently used.

Answer 4

There are none. The work was done as a study in pure chemistry.

Noble gases themselves do have uses though.

Helium is used in lighter than air craft and balloons.

Neon, Argon, and Krypton are used in "neon signs".

And the gases can replace air in containers where you don't want something in the container to react with the gas in the container.

Answer 5

Lasers: e.g. helium, neon

Fluorescent lighting: e.g. neon again

Inert media: lightbulbs are filled with argon to protect the tungsten filament from decomposition