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Argon was first isolated from air in 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay at University College London by removing oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, and nitrogen from a sample of clean air. [19] They first accomplished this by replicating an experiment of Henry Cavendish 's.
Sir William Ramsay KCB FRS FRSE (/ ˈ r æ m z i /; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along with his collaborator, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same ...
Goldman dials back its bullish gold forecast amid a dimmer outlook for rate cuts in 2025 In commodities, bonds, and crypto: West Texas Intermediate crude oil rose 0.9% to $74.25 a barrel.
Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, for their discovery of the noble gases; [14] [15] in the words of J. E. Cederblom, then president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, "the discovery of an entirely new group of elements, of which no single representative had been known with any ...
Markets seesawed on the first trading day of 2025 as investors grappled with big questions ahead of a change of power in Washington. U.S. stocks jumped in early trading, then zigzagged throughout ...
Wall Street's main indexes were subdued in choppy trading on Wednesday, as investors anticipated an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve in its final meeting of the year and awaited clues on ...
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