By Steven Chrappa

• Discovered by Sir William Ramsay, a Scottish chemist, and Lord Rayleigh, an English chemist in 1894

• Was the first inverted gas to be discovered on earth

• One of the noble elements

• Comes from the Greek word for inactive, argos meaning inactive

•Melting Point:83.80 K (-189.35°C or -308.83°F)

•Boiling Point:87.30 K (-185.85°C or -302.53°F)

•Density:0.0017837 grams per cubic centimeter

•Phase at Room Temperature: Gas

•Atomic Number:18

•Atomic Weight:39.948

•Element Classification: inverted gas

•Symbol: Ar

• Argon is found by fractionating liquid air

• Earth’s atmosphere contains .94% argon

Argon is used in electric lights and fluorescent tubes, photo tubes, glow tubes, and in lasers.

Argon is used as an inert gas for welding and cutting, blanketing reactive elements,

Protective (nonreactive) atmosphere for growing crystals of silicon and germanium.

Electron Dot Diagram

Electron Configuration

1s² 2s² 2p6 3s2 3p6

BibliographyWorks Cited

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