if you were trying to make a compound of the noble gas xenon, would you use nitrogen or fluorine? explain.?

Answer 1

fluorine becasue it is more electronegative and will be able to "take" the electron from xenon (they will share them in a bond). in facr XeFl2 (xenon difluoride) was the first noble gas compound every made.

Answer 2

Despite having a "full" outer electron shell of s and p orbitals, the d- and f-orbitals of the fourth shell have not been filled, and therefore Xenon may form compounds with strong electronegative elements such as fluorine and oxygen. Nitrogen is less electronegative, and nitrogen gas doesn't react well because it takes a lot of energy to break the nitrogen-nitrogen triple bond. Hence it would be unsuitable to react with xenon. Even under plasma conditions (with outer electrons separated from the atom rumps) I doubt that xenon-nitrogen compounds would be stable, because diatomic nitrogen is a better alternative.

Answer 3

Fluorine. It takes a real "kick in the butt" to get a compound of a noble gas made, and those which do exist are either fluorides or oxy-fluorides (including actual compounds of xenon).

Answer 4

Nitrogen works better with Xenon in forming a compound.
Flourine would not work.

Answer 5

Fluorine becasue it is more electronegative.A lot of compound such as XeF2,XeF4,etc have been made so far.

Answer 6

its definately flourine! It's easier with flourine because each flourine atom only needs to bond once due to its one unshared election pair. nitrogen has 3 unshared pairs...xenon cannot make these bonds because it is unable to make triple bonds.