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"xenon difluoride"

My rough guess is this noble gas + fluorine combination = crazy ultra-reactive material at room temperature and standard pressure.

I'd say this is not something one wants to release into the wild. There might be a clever way to contain it. But it would a bit hard to make laptop batteries of out of it.

Edit: You're right, Alfred only organized other chemical things...

It's a noble gas, not a Nobel gas. Alfred had nothing to do with it... ;-)

Somehow getting noble and Nobel mixed up when talking about stuff that can go boom seems less wrong than in other contexts.

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