The year 1785 brought a strange discovery to scientist Henry Cavendish, who saw that not more than 1/120 of our atmosphere was made up of some inert element. This notation was ignored for more than a century until Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsey, both British, discovered something. They realized that nitrogen prepared by removing oxygen from air was different than nitrogen from chemical sources such as ammonia. This gas was isolated in 1894 and was named argon due to its chemical inertness.
The noble gas argon is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless element which belongs to the family of Noble Gases in Group 18 of the Periodic Table. Argon comes from the Greek word ar
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