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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: krypton .vs. halogen, which is better?
Summary: A bit of chemistry...
Keywords: halogens, inert gases, electrons
Message-ID: <4907@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 91 14:25:21 GMT
References: <38610009@col.hp.com> <1270004@hplred.HP.COM>
Followup-To: sci.electronics
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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In article <1270004@hplred.HP.COM> paull@hplred.HP.COM (Robert Paull) writes:
>  That's funny, I thought that Neon,Argon,Krypton and Xenon WERE
>halogens? Was my chem teach' wrong???

	I suppose one could say that Neon, Argon, Krypton and Xenon WERE
halogens until someone added an electron (and proton and neutron) to make
them the INERT GASES that they are.

	:-)

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