Argon Synonyms

ärgŏn
A colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ar
  2. atomic number 18

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Argon Sentence Examples

  • The weight of a mixture of argon and nitrogen prepared from the dissolved gases showed an excess of 24 mg.

  • Of these, argon and its allies were the last to be definitely isolated.

  • In the absence of liquid air the helium must be purified by the methods employed for argon (q.v.).

  • One remarkable discovery, however, of general interest, was the outcome of a long series of delicate weighings and minute experimental care in the determination of the relative density of nitrogen gas - undertaken in order to determine the atomic weight of nitrogen - namely, the discovery of argon, the first of a series of new substances, chemically inert, which occur, some only in excessively minute quantities, as constituents of the 1 The barony was created at George IV.'s coronation in 1821 for the wife of Joseph Holden Strutt, M.P. for Maldon (1790-1826) and Okehampton (1826-1830), who had done great service during the French War as colonel of the Essex militia.

  • Although, as was natural, Cavendish was satisfied with his result, and does not decide whether the small residue was genuine, it is probable that his residue was really of a different kind from the main bulk of the "phlogisticated air," and contained the gas afterwards named argon.

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