argon Definition
ar·gon (är′gän′)
noun
a colorless, odorless chemical element, one of the noble gases, constituting nearly 1% of the atmosphere: it is used in incandescent light bulbs, radio tubes, welding, etc.: symbol, Ar; at. no., 18
Etymology: Gr, neut. of argos, inert, idle < a-, without + ergon, work
argon Usage Examples
Converse of object
- fill: Windows are Scandinavian style timber frames with argon filled low emissivity double glazing.
- use: There is also the issue of the increased cost of using argon.
- discover: Rayleigh discovered the gas argon and was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1904.
- include: Plasma gases include argon, hydrogen, nitrogen and mixtures thereof, as well as air and oxygen.
- glaze: The windows and rooflights are softwood frame with double glazed argon filled low emissivity glass.
- have: The U2 has an argon filled cavity with copper sulfate water absorbing capsule.
Noun used with modifier
- %: Why don't abattoirs switch to 90 % argon in air?
- gas: Rayleigh is perhaps most famous for his discovery the inert gas argon in 1895, work which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1904.
Adjective modifier
- liquid: The electrical connections to the calorimeter are actually made to thin metallic members in the liquid argon ( " electrodes " ).
- inert: Rayleigh is perhaps most famous for his discovery the inert gas argon in 1895, work which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1904.
Modifies a noun
- coagulation: SPECIFIC ISSUES Small Polyps Small polyps ( 1 cm ) are usually resected using hot biopsy or argon plasma coagulation.
- laser: The National Hospital of the Ministry of Health had its argon laser unit repaired at no cost to the country.
- ion: The delay lines were fabricated in-house using a standard photolithography process, followed by dry etching using argon ion beam milling.
- plasma: SPECIFIC ISSUES Small Polyps Small polyps ( 1 cm ) are usually resected using hot biopsy or argon plasma coagulation.
- atom: Your next breath will contain more than 400,000 of argon atoms that Ghandi breathed in his long life.
- gas: A mercury vapor lamp has at its center a small quartz arc tube filled with argon gas under high pressure.
Preposition: in
air: The pigs did not show any aversion to the inhalation of 90 per cent argon in air.

