Gas Isotopes

A colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases.

Bromine gas is a strong-smelling red vapor. It is extremely reactive with various substances and one of its primary uses is as an organic synthesis intermediate, something which gives it great value in booster production.

Chlorine is a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens, best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas. It is commonly used as a bleaching agent and disinfectant, and its effectiveness as an oxidizing agent lends it great value in the production of boosters.

Fluorine is a corrosive yellow gas. Its uncommon combination of characteristics, such as its electronegativity and its tiny atomic radius, give it a wide variety of unique applications in the field of booster production.

Iodine is a noxious-smelling purple gas. It forms

A colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, krypton occurs in trace amounts in the atmosphere, is isolated by fractionating liquefied air, and is often used with other rare gases in fluorescent lamps. Krypton is inert for most practical purposes but it is known to form compounds with fluorine. Krypton can also form clathrates with water when atoms of it are trapped in a lattice of the water molecules.

Neon is the second-lightest noble gas, glows reddish-orange in a vacuum discharge tube and has over 40 times the refrigerating capacity of liquid helium and three times that of liquid hydrogen (on a per unit volume basis). In most applications it is a less expensive refrigerant than helium. Neon has the most intense discharge at normal voltages and currents of all the rare gases.

Xenon is a member of the zero-valence elements that are called noble or inert gases, however, "inert" is not a completely accurate description of this chemical series since some noble gas compounds have been synthesized. In a gas filled tube, xenon emits a blue glow when the gas is excited by electrical discharge. Using tens of gigapascals of pressure, xenon has been forced into a metallic phase.[3] Xenon can also form clathrates with water when atoms of it are trapped in a lattice of the water molecules.