We know that Xenon is an inert gas. How can it form compounds?

Although xenon is inert gas but it form covalent compounds with some other elements due to the availability of d-orbital. This page may be out of date. Save your draft before refreshing this page. read more

What had been realized was that the ionization potential of fluorine and some fluorine compounds was in fact higher than that required to remove an electron from the outer shell of some “inert gases”. That is, fluorine is so desperate to complete its shell that it can abstract it from xenon. This is why fluorine is so ferociously reactive. read more

Noble gas compounds are chemical compounds that include an element from the noble gases, group 18 of the periodic table. Although the noble gases are generally unreactive elements, many such compounds have been observed, particularly involving the element xenon. read more