So that, in the event of your death, your next of kin know what to do with any receptacles of argon you may have-- hippo, Jan 28 2023 Isotopes https://en.wikipedi...i/Isotopes_of_argonThere were more than the main ones I mentioned, but they argon now. [a1, Jan 29 2023] Argon lamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argand_lampPractical application [pocmloc, Jan 30 2023] Invented by someone French https://en.m.wikipe...i/Forest_of_Argonne [pertinax, Jan 30 2023] Where is it? Ar, it's all gone.-- xenzag, Jan 28 2023 My grandfather had a stoneware jar of mercury, perhaps 100ml or so, perhaps more. I remember playing with it as a child. I never found it after he died though. So [+] as long as it is exended to all elements.-- pocmloc, Jan 28 2023 Also avoids any argoments.-- xenzag, Jan 28 2023 Guess all pun limits argon.-- doctorremulac3, Jan 28 2023 Once we are gone, we argon...but argons aren't gone.-- Sgt Teacup, Jan 29 2023 // but argons aren't gone //
True for the three stable isotopes, but theres one naturally occurring isotope (39Ar) with a half life of 286 years, and three synthetic ones with half lives ranging from 109 minutes to 32.9 years. And several other extremely short lived ones,
So in time, they argon too.-- a1, Jan 29 2023 G R O A N-- tatterdemalion, Jan 29 2023 we argonna be seeing these for some time aren't we?-- Voice, Jan 29 2023 Does that include draining (carefully...) the argon out of your double-glazed windows (replaced with air or something equally cheap-n-nasty) before selling the house to some unsuspecting rube?-- neutrinos_shadow, Jan 30 2023 The invention described in this idea could also be useful for other purposes-- pocmloc, Jan 30 2023 random, halfbakery