They also found that NiDOBDC was more selective than charcoal for xenon
over krypton, which is fairly similar to xenon.
Not exact matches
For example, they want to measure the planet's inventory of stable noble gases, such as xenon and
krypton, which change little in abundance
over billions of years and hold clues to planetary origins.
Weiss had to distill, heat and pass the air samples
over adsorbents to remove gases such as carbon dioxide and
krypton that could foul the extremely sensitive detector.
The prevalences and isotope ratios of the noble, or inert, gases, such as neon, argon,
krypton and xenon, provide a valuable tracer of ancient processes, because they are chemically nonreactive and so do not change much
over time.
Severinghaus discovered that xenon and
krypton are well preserved in ice cores, which provides the temperature information that can then be used by scientists studying many other aspects of the earth's oceans and atmosphere
over hundreds of thousands of years.