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No Longer "Noble"; Argon Compound Found In Space
mbstone writes "Scientists at the University College of London — where argon was originally discovered in 1894 — have now found spectroscopic signatures of molecules of argon hydride (ArH), said to be produced via explosive nucleosynthesis in a core-collapse supernova in the Crab Nebula. The post-supernova molecular dust was observed by the Herschel Space Observatory shortly before it ran out of coolant in April.."
This. Instead of shopping for Christmas before the Baptists get out of church and flood the stores, I am looking up noble gases, then noble metals, and then electric potential on a Sunday morning.... sigh.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
That far right side of the Periodic Table
Also known as the fascist elements.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Noble In Name Only
I thought we could rely on these gasses to stay true to their column on the periodic table, but, no, they've sold out, just like that whorish oxygen and hydrogen, which will twerk with even the most sordid elements of society.
We're just going to have to look elsewhere for the stability we crave at all levels.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
... It's not always easy to be noble under extreme conditions. Happens to the best of us!
You are both wrong. You have to use Illudium which must be detonated with a Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. If you don't, you won't have an Earth-shattering Kaboom!