how was the first noble gas compound prepared plz explain
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In 1961 Neil Bartlett was teaching chemistry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Some years earlier, while experimenting with fluorine and platinum, he had accidentally produced a deep-red solid whose exact chemical composition remained a mystery. With the assistance of his graduate student Derek Lohmann, he vigorously pursued the identity of the red solid. After much research, they eventually found that the known gaseous fluoride, platinum hexafluoride (PtF6), was able to oxidize oxygen and produce the red solid, which he and Lohmann had identified as O2+PtF6-.
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