dense, colourless crystalline solid.

It has a nauseating odour and low vapor pressure.

Structure

Xenon difluoride is a linear molecule with an Xe-F bond length of in the vapor stage, and 200 pm in the solid phase. The packing arrangement in solid shows that the fluorine atoms of neighbouring molecules avoid the equatorial region of each molecule. This agrees with the prediction of VSEPR

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