The discovery of the noble gases shows how innovative researchers have been when it came to separating and identifying minor amounts of components from mixtures using relatively simple tools. First ...

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Extraordinary pressures and temperatures lead to extraordinary chemistry. Usually, noble gases are among the least reactive elements. Yet tremendously high heat and pressure can bring out chemical ...

THE position of argon in a classification of the elements depending on atomic weights has been recently defined by C. J. Reed (Journal of the Franklin Institute, July). The elements are assigned ...

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