Name : Xenon Symbol : Xe Atomic # : 54 Atom weight: 131.3 Melting P. : -111.9 Boiling P. : -107.1 Oxidation : 0 Pronounced : ZEE-non From : Greek xenos, "strange" Identified : Sir William Ramsay and M. W. Travers in 1898 Appearance : Heavy, colorless, and odorless noble gas Note : The rarest of the gassy elements in the earth's atmosphere [Properties] Xenon is one of the Group-0, noble gasses. It is a heavy gas - about 4.5 times heavier than air - and is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. Xenon is recovered on a commercial scale by the fractional distillation of liquid air.