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Argon out of thin air

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Markku Räsänen remembers making a neutral compound featuring argon, and ponders on the reactivity of this inert element.

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  1. Markku Räsänen is in the Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, PO Box 55 (A. I.Virtasen aukio 1), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland,

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Räsänen, M. Argon out of thin air. Nature Chem 6, 82 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1825

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