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{{Element | name=Argon | symbol=Ar | anumber=18 | amass=39.9 amu | noe=18 | class=Non-metal | cstructure=Cubic | color=Colorless gas | date=1894 | discname=[[Sir William Ramsey]] | origname=From the Greek ''argon''. | uses=Lighting | obtained=Air }}

{{Element | name=Argon | symbol=Ar | anumber=18 | amass=39.9 amu | noe=18 | class=Non-metal | cstructure=Cubic | color=Colorless gas | date=1894 | discname=[[Sir William Ramsey]] | origname=From the Greek ''argon''. | uses=Lighting | obtained=Air }}

'''Argon''' ('''Ar''') is the most common of the [[noble gas]]es. It is an inert component which comprises 0.934% of the Earth's [[atmosphere]].<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref>  It is a common shielding agent in welding or melting of metal, preventing reaction and subsequent oxidation of the hot metal with atmospheric air. It was given its' name due to the fact that alchemists in the Midle Ages thought that the element Argon helped in the transmuting of other metals into silver (though it did not work, of course); Argon is similar to the genitive case of the latin word for silver - augia, the genetive of which is augio.

'''Argon''' ('''Ar''') is the most common of the [[noble gas]]es. It is an inert component which comprises 0.934% of the Earth's [[atmosphere]].<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref>  It is a common shielding agent in welding or melting of metal, preventing reaction and subsequent oxidation of the hot metal with atmospheric air.

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