Sentence examples for argon from inspiring English sources
"argon" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a chemical element (symbol Ar) and can be used to refer to the element itself or compounds that contain it. For example, you could say "Argon is commonly used as a gas filler in light bulbs."
noun
A chemical element (symbol Ar) with an atomic number of 18.
A lever on the top opens a valve that shoots inert argon gas into the bottle at high pressure, filling the space vacated by the liquid.
Isentropic, a company in Fareham, Britain, plans to employ the compression and expansion of a gas (in this case, argon) to create heat and cold respectively in two large containers of gravel one of the cheapest solid heat-storage media imaginable.
But the LBNF's 34,000-tonne tank of argon will contain an awful lot of carefully watched protons.
The cages can trap inert gases such as helium and argon, and when Dr Becker analysed the weights of the helium and argon atoms from her late-Permian fullerenes, she found that the mixture resembled that of gas from meteorites, rather than from the surface of the Earth.Many people were sceptical.
These are cabinets which hold anywhere between four and 120 bottles that, once opened, are topped up with inert gases like nitrogen or argon to keep the oxygen out.
Rather than use metal as an armature, the firm strips ions from a few milligrams of argon gas and uses the resulting conductive plasma to transfer electrical energy from one rail to another.
Her argon-argon dating of the local breccias has now confirmed that.
The decay of potassium-40 to form argon-40 (calcium-40 is produced in this decay process as well) is also a widely used radiometric dating tool, though there are several other parent-daughter pairs that are used in radiometric dating, including another isotope of uranium (uranium-235), which decays ultimately to form lead-207, and thorium-232, which decays to lead-208.
Nuclides that have equal and even numbers of neutrons and protons, the "alpha-particle" nuclides, fall into this category, which includes carbon-12, magnesium-24, and argon-36.
The well-known Palisades Sill of the Newark Supergroup was formerly regarded as Triassic in age, but this diabase intrusion, which is 300 metres (1,000 feet) thick, has yielded a potassium-argon age of 193 million years, indicating an Early Jurassic origin.
In Antarctica, for example, potassium-argon age determinations of lava overlying glaciated surfaces and sedimentary deposits of glacial origin show that glaciers existed on this continent at least 10 million years ago.
