Word: argonant
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...Irving Langmuir was told by the director not to bother with practical applications, but to find out what he could about what went on inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp. Thereafter Langmuir spent three years "investigating facts," discovered some-for example, that a bulb filled with nitrogen or argon works better than an evacuated bulb-which now save electricity consumers several million dollars...
Second director was furry-visaged John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, who discovered the "noble" gases (Argon, Helium, etc.) and made the most accurate contemporary determinations of the ohm and the ampere. He got a Nobel Prize 20 years after he retired from the Cavendish directorship. Third director was Sir Joseph John Thomson, who held the post for 35 years, discovered the electron while studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters...
...Advancement of Science was assembled for its summer meeting, two distinguished scientists were much in evidence. One was Robert John Strutt, Baron Rayleigh (pronounced "ray-lee"), an authority on radioactivity, son of the late' great Rayleigh who was best known for his discovery of the "noble" gases (helium, argon, etc.). This year, Lord Rayleigh, 63, is the B. A. A. S. president, and therefore was expected to make British Science's annual philosophical discourse, avoiding grubby details. In his address, Lord Ray leigh defended Science against the charge that it has made war horrible, using the now-familiar...
Lately Dr. Anderson and his lean young coworker, Dr. Seth Neddermeyer, have been trying to trap barytrons near the end of their ranges-that is, as they slow up from exhaustion of energy after many collisions. The two physicists have a "cloud chamber" filled with argon, helium and alcohol vapor. A particle passing through knocks ions (electrified fragments) out of the gas atoms, and the vapor condenses on the ions, making a visible track which shows up as a white line in photographs. A device called a coincidence circuit snaps the picture when the particle passes through...
...quarts of air there is one quart of krypton. An inert gas discovered in 1898 by Ramsay and Travers, krypton is scarcer and less volatile than argon, neon and xenon; its name means "the hidden one." In the U. S., small quantities of krypton have been obtained by Linde Air Products Co. and Air Reduction Co. during the fractional distillation (selective boiling) of liquid air, and sold to academic laboratories for $100 a litre if pure, $15 a litre if mixed. Argon or nitrogen at low pressure are the usual fillers for electric tamp bulbs manufactured...