Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Xenon hexafluoroplatinate is the product of the reaction of platinum hexafluoride and xenon in an experiment that proved the chemical reactivity of the noble gases. This experiment was performed by Neil Bartlett at the University of British Columbia who formulated the product as Xe+[PtF6]− although subsequent work suggests that Bartlett’s product was probably a mixture and did not in fact contain this specific salt.