Steady growth in gaseous and liquid neon consumption is being projected for the current decade. Annual neon production presently exceeds 300,000 m3 worldwide. Half this volume or more is produced here at Iceblick, Ltd. We owe our success to relentless pursuit of cutting edge technology, our expanding research facilities and widening raw materials base…
Ambient air is the only practical source of krypton and xenon. Krypton-xenon concentrate is received at large-scale air separation units as a byproduct of oxygen and nitrogen production. Purification of noble gases out of concentrate is a multi-step process. Enrichment, separation into components, and purification of krypton and xenon are performed in consecutive stages on several production units comprising a unified technological chain…
The characteristic feature of xenon is its rather high boiling point, as compared to krypton, under atmospheric pressure –108°С (165 K). Xenon is liquid below the critical temperature of 17°С (290 К). Pressure in the cylinder depends on ambient temperature and equals 20…58 Bar…
Isotopes are atom modifications of the same element that differ by atomic mass values. They have identical structure of the electron shell and are nearly chemically identical. In most cases, the differences in the physical properties of gaseous elements' isotopes are also barely discernable…