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Six example sentences with argon, each labelled with its topic.
Welders flood the seam with argon so the hot metal never touches oxygen and the weld stays clean.
Technology
Because argon refuses to react with anything, chemists store fragile samples under it for decades without change.
Science
The museum sealed the delicate manuscript in a case filled with argon, keeping oxygen away from the ancient ink.
Art
Modern windows trap argon between two panes, since the heavy gas slows heat leaking out of a warm room.
Architecture
In 1894 Rayleigh and Ramsay isolated argon from air, a gas nobody had suspected was there all along.
History
Eye surgeons use an argon laser to seal leaking blood vessels at the back of the retina.
Medicine
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