argon
氩气,氮气,氩
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Chemistry.
- : a colorless, odorless, chemically inactive, monatomic, gaseous element that, because of its inertness, is used for filling fluorescent and incandescent lamps and vacuum tubes.Symbol: Ar; atomic number: 18; atomic weight: 39.948.
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If you want to level up from the classic topper you received as a holiday gift, Herwaldt swears by the Repour Wine Saver, which introduces argon into the open bottle.
The ultracold temps would have made nitrogen, argon, krypton and xenon freeze solid.
Some of the most advanced modern detectors trace their lineage back to multiwire proportional chambers, such as liquid argon time projection chambers.
The frosty temperature made nitrogen, argon, krypton and xenon freeze solid and become a greater part of the planet, the scientists suggest in a study in the July Astronomy & Astrophysics.
This same phenomenon is at work in neon signs, which are tubes of gases such as neon, helium and argon.
The atmosphere of the earth is composed mainly of very volatile elements, known as nitrogen and argon.
(Beilage), pp. 33-43, entitled Professor Grtz un' der jdischer argon, oder Wer mit ws darf sich schmen?
Argon, ar′gon, n. a constituent element of our atmosphere, discovered in 1894 by Rayleigh and Ramsay.
They soon succeeded in isolating this denser gas, to which they gave the name of argon.
It combines directly with nitrogen, when heated in the gas, to form the nitride Mg3N2 (see Argon).