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Can you weld with Xenon? (100% as shield gas)

Well can you? I searched the web and found almost nothing, so decided to do my own experiment with a TIG welder. Xenon is a very heavy, very expensive, for practical purposes inert gas. It is one of the noble gases on the right hand side of the Periodic Table so you would expect this experiment to work, however I have found no record at all of anyone ever actually trying this for real. Settings Gas flow: Unknown, I used my best guess based on the sound of it emerging from the torch! Amps: 135 Two 4mm thick steel plates. My impressions: The Argon weld was slightly easier to make. It took a moment longer for the metal to melt, filler rod to melt and puddle to form when using xenon. Xenon has a very poor heat conductivity so perhaps I might have expected the heat to stay more localised to the weld area than with argon. However I had no way to measure my xenon gas flow so it may actually have been flowing way faster than required as my setting of this flow rate was a guess at best. I adjusted the second stage regulator pressure until the hiss from the end of the torch sounded about right - not very scientific at all. Anyway, you CAN weld using xenon as your shielding gas.