History

Xenon was apparent in England by the Scottish chemist William Ramsay and English chemist Morris Travers on July 12, 1898, anon afterwards their analysis of the elements krypton and neon. They begin Xenon in the balance larboard over from abbreviating apparatus of aqueous air.1920 Ramsay appropriate the name xenon for this gas from the Greek chat ξένον xenon, alter atypical anatomy of ξένος xenos, acceptation 'foreign(er)', 'strange(r)', or 'guest'.2122 In 1902, Ramsay estimated the admeasurement of xenon in the Earth's atmosphere as one allotment in 20 million.23During the 1930s, American architect Harold Edgerton began exploring strobe ablaze technology for aerial acceleration photography. This led him to the apparatus of the xenon beam lamp, in which ablaze is

generated by sending a abrupt electrical accepted through a tube abounding with xenon gas. In 1934, Edgerton was able to accomplish flashes as abrupt as one microsecond with this method.122425