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ar·gon (ärgän′)

noun

a colorless, odorless chemical element, one of the noble gases, constituting nearly 1% of the atmosphere: it is used in incandescent light bulbs, radio tubes, welding, etc.: symbol, Ar; at. no., 18

Etymology: Gr, neut. of argos, inert, idle < a-, without + ergon, work

argon Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • fill: Windows are Scandinavian style timber frames with argon filled low emissivity double glazing.
  • use: There is also the issue of the increased cost of using argon.
  • discover: Rayleigh discovered the gas argon and was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1904.
  • include: Plasma gases include argon, hydrogen, nitrogen and mixtures thereof, as well as air and oxygen.
  • glaze: The windows and rooflights are softwood frame with double glazed argon filled low emissivity glass.
  • have: The U2 has an argon filled cavity with copper sulfate water absorbing capsule.

Noun used with modifier

  • %: Why don't abattoirs switch to 90 % argon in air?
  • gas: Rayleigh is perhaps most famous for his discovery the inert gas argon in 1895, work which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1904.

Adjective modifier

  • liquid: The electrical connections to the calorimeter are actually made to thin metallic members in the liquid argon ( " electrodes " ).
  • inert: Rayleigh is perhaps most famous for his discovery the inert gas argon in 1895, work which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1904.

Modifies a noun

  • coagulation: SPECIFIC ISSUES Small Polyps Small polyps ( 1 cm ) are usually resected using hot biopsy or argon plasma coagulation.
  • laser: The National Hospital of the Ministry of Health had its argon laser unit repaired at no cost to the country.
  • ion: The delay lines were fabricated in-house using a standard photolithography process, followed by dry etching using argon ion beam milling.
  • plasma: SPECIFIC ISSUES Small Polyps Small polyps ( 1 cm ) are usually resected using hot biopsy or argon plasma coagulation.
  • atom: Your next breath will contain more than 400,000 of argon atoms that Ghandi breathed in his long life.
  • gas: A mercury vapor lamp has at its center a small quartz arc tube filled with argon gas under high pressure.

Preposition: in

  • air: The pigs did not show any aversion to the inhalation of 90 per cent argon in air.

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