Definition of argon
: a colorless odorless inert gaseous element found in the air and in volcanic gases and used especially in welding, lasers, and electric bulbs — see Chemical Elements Table
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Geochemist Alan Deino of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and his colleagues dated several sites around the basin by analyzing the ratio of argon isotopes in rock layers to tell when the material above and below a site had been deposited.
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For a cleaner weld, use 75 percent CO2 and 25 percent argon.
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For decades the bulbs have been filled with gas, usually a mixture of nitrogen and argon.
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The large built-in argon gas supply will also last over 150 bottles.
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Two other teams of physicists—using instruments that detect muons passing through plastic arrays or argon—then verified this anomaly.
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Construction began Friday on the neutrino detectors at the Sanford lab, which will be about a mile deep and filled with 70,000 tons of liquid argon.
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Mainly, he is disregarded — like nitrogen, argon, and other invisible, inert gases.
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The new model suggests our home planet contains significantly more sodium, potassium, chlorine, zinc, strontium, fluorine, gallium, rubidium, niobium, gadolinium, tantalum, helium, argon, and krypton than previously believed.
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Origin and Etymology of argon
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Definition of argon for English Language Learners
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: a chemical element that is a colorless gas and that is used in various products (such as lasers and some electric light bulbs)
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medical Definition of argon
: a colorless odorless inert gaseous element found in the air and in volcanic gases and used especially in lasers and electric bulbs
—symbol Ar
— see Chemical Elements Table
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