Word: argonant
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...current boom in neon brings its history full circle. Although the process of passing an electric charge through a gas such as neon or argon inside a sealed glass tube had been known for some time, it became commercially viable in 1910, when a French inventor named Georges Claude developed a long-life electrode. One early practical application: a giant white Cinzano sign over the chimneys of Paris. After being introduced into the U.S. in 1923, neon flourished for nearly two decades, especially as an accent for fantasies: movie houses, cocktail lounges, casinos. In the 1950s, when television took visual...
...white smoke, like the horses in Eisenstein's movies." Chemistry's periodic table, which arranges the elements according to their atomic number, is Levi's metaphor for the relationships that compose a human life. The Periodic Table consists of 21 episodes, most of them autobiographical, named after elements from argon to zinc, each with its relative density, characteristic properties and unique function in the author's remarkable life story...
...begins with a loving re-creation of the small Jewish community in the northwest Italian region of Piedmont, where he was born in 1919. His ancestors resembled argon, the author explains, because it is an inactive gas: "They were inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated and gratuitous discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities...
...years many of the firm's products, including Eveready batteries, Glad bags, Prestone antifreeze and Simoniz car wax, have become popular items in America's households. But the company's best customers are businesses. Major products include polyethylene and other petrochemicals, industrial gases like acetylene and argon, and pesticides. Such industrial lines accounted for 79% of sales...
Using satellite compiled data dating back to 1979, the scientist has determined that supernovae explosions have produced massive quantities of chemicals such as sulpher, calcium, argon and silicon...