Word: argonant
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...Reduction-powerful pumps compress oxygen, hydrogen or acetylene into tall, slim, thick-walled steel tanks for welding or burning through metal; incandescent bulb makers buy nitrogen and argon-profits...
...chromosphere, or outer coat. For a long time it was supposed to be indigenous to the sun only, but in 1895 Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), the brilliant British chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1904, isolated the element from the earth, shortly after he had similarly found argon, in collaboration with Lord Rayleigh. Later it was discovered by Becquerel, the Curies, Rutherford, Soddy and other experts in radioactivity, that the so-called "alpha particles," little groups of four "protons" and two "electrons" given off regularly by uranium and similar substances in their process of degeneration, are in reality...
...Physical Colloquium. "The Molecular Attraction and Compressibility of Helium and Argon" by Mr. R. H. Kent, Room 25, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
October 28.--"The Properties of Argon...
...discovery of Argon and Helium...