"argon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɑːɹɡɒn/ [US] Audio: En-us-argon.ogg [US] Forms: argons [plural]
enPR: är'gŏn Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀργόν (argón), neuter of ἀργός (argós, “idle, lazy”), because of its inertness. Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|ἀργόν}} Ancient Greek ἀργόν (argón), {{m|grc|ἀργός|t=idle, lazy}} ἀργός (argós, “idle, lazy”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} argon (countable and uncountable, plural argons)
  1. The chemical element (symbol Ar) with an atomic number of 18. The third most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, it is a colourless, odourless, inert noble gas. Wikidata QID: Q696 Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Argon, Noble gases Translations (a chemical element): argon (Afrikaans), argon (Albanian), أَرْجُون (ʔarjūn) [masculine] (Arabic), أَرْجُون (ʔargūn) [masculine] (Arabic), أَرْغُون (ʔarḡūn) [masculine] (Arabic), արգոն (argon) (Armenian), argón [masculine] (Asturian), argon (Basque), арго́н (arhón) [masculine] (Belarusian), argônio [masculine] (Brazilian Portuguese), argon (Breton), арго́н (argón) [masculine] (Bulgarian), argó [masculine] (Catalan), (Chinese Mandarin), (yà) (Chinese Mandarin), argo (Cornish), argon [masculine] (Czech), argon (Danish), argon [neuter] (Dutch), argono (Esperanto), argoon (Estonian), argónio [masculine] (European Portuguese), argon [neuter] (Faroese), argon (Finnish), argon [masculine] (French), argon [masculine] (Friulian), argon [masculine] (Galician), არგონი (argoni) (Georgian), Argon [neuter] (German), αργό (argó) [neuter] (Greek), ארגון (argón) (Hebrew), argon (Hungarian), argon (Icelandic), argon (Interlingua), argón (Irish), argon [masculine] (Italian), argo [masculine] (Italian), アルゴン (arugon) (Japanese), argón (Kashubian), аргон (argon) (Kazakh), អាកុង (aakong) (Khmer), 아르곤 (areugon) (Korean), argons (Latvian), alago class 9a/10a (Lingala), argonas (Lithuanian), Argon (Luxembourgish), аргон (argon) [masculine] (Macedonian), argon (Malay), ആർഗോൺ (āṟgōṇ) (Malayalam), argon [masculine] (Maltese), argon (Manx), аргон (argon) (Mongolian), níłchʼi dootłʼizhí (Navajo), argon [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), argon [neuter] (Norwegian), argon [masculine] (Occitan), آرگون (ârgon) (Persian), argon [masculine] (Polish), árgon [masculine] (Portuguese), argon [neuter] (Romanian), арго́н (argón) [masculine] (Russian), argon (Scottish Gaelic), а̀рго̄н [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), àrgōn [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), argón [masculine] (Slovak), argon [masculine] (Slovene), argón [masculine] (Spanish), agoni (Swahili), argon [neuter] (Swedish), argon (Tagalog), аргон (argon) (Tajik), ஆர்கன் (ārkaṉ) (Tamil), อาร์กอน (aa-gɔ̂n) (Thai), argon (Turkish), арго́н (arhón) [masculine] (Ukrainian), арґон (argon) [masculine] (Ukrainian), argon (Uzbek), аргон (argon) [Cyrillic] (Uzbek), agon (Vietnamese), largonin (Volapük), argon [masculine] (Welsh), argon (West Frisian), אַרגאָן (argon) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-argon-en-noun-en:Q696 Disambiguation of Argon: 82 18 Disambiguation of Noble gases: 83 17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 88 12 Disambiguation of 'a chemical element': 73 27
  2. (countable) A single atom of this element. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-argon-en-noun-4PyrrqR0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: E938 when used as a packaging gas
Derived forms: argide, argon-36, argon-38, argon-40, argonated, argon chloride fluoride, argon chloride hydride, argon fluoride hydride, argon fluorohydride, argon hydrofluoride, argonide, argonium, argonlike, metaargon, meta-argon, metargon, potassium-argon dating, radioargon

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      "word": "氩"
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      "word": "argon"
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "sense": "a chemical element",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ta",
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      "word": "ஆர்கன்"
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      "code": "th",
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "argon",
      "sense": "a chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "арґон"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "a chemical element",
      "word": "argon"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "roman": "argon",
      "sense": "a chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "аргон"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a chemical element",
      "word": "agon"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "a chemical element",
      "word": "largonin"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "argon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "a chemical element",
      "word": "argon"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "argon",
      "sense": "a chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אַרגאָן"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "argon"
  ],
  "word": "argon"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Lingala: 'alago class 9a/10a', originally 'alago class 9a/10a'",
  "path": [
    "argon"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "argon",
  "trace": ""
}

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