Argon

Uses

18 Ar 39.948(1)

The following uses for argon are gathered from a number of sources as well as from anecdotal comments. I'd be delighted to receive corrections as well as additional referenced uses (please use the feedback mechanism to add uses).

used in electric light bulbs and in fluorescent tubes at a pressure of about 3 mm, photo tubes, glow tubes, etc. used as an inert gas shield for arc welding and cutting blanket for the production of titanium and other reactive elements protective atmosphere for growing silicon and germanium crystals ,lasers, light bulbs electric light bulbs and fluorescent tubes, photo tubes, glow tubes, welding, cutting, as a protective gas for other substances, 10 Ne 20.1797(6)

Neon
Uses

The following uses for neon are gathered from a number of sources as well as from anecdotal comments. I'd be delighted to receive corrections as well as additional referenced uses (please use the feedback mechanism to add uses).

used in making neon advertising signs, which accounts for its largest use used to make high voltage indicators, lightning arrestors, wave meter tubes, and T! tubes neon and helium are used in making gas lasers li"uid neon is an economical cryogenic refrigerant. It has over #$ times more refrigerating capacity per unit volume than li"uid helium and more than three times that of li"uid hydrogen. It is compact, inert, and less e%pensive than helium when it meets refrigeration re"uirements

Uses

The following uses for %enon are gathered from a number of sources as well as from anecdotal comments. I'd be delighted to receive corrections as well as additional referenced uses (please use the feedback mechanism to add uses).

used in making electron tubes, stroboscopic lamps, bactericidal lamps, and lamps used to e%cite ruby lasers for generating coherent light used in the atomic energy field in bubble chambers, probes, and other applications where its high molecular weight is of value potentially useful as a gas for ion engines the per%enates are used in analytical chemistry as o%idi&ing agents

Uses
The following uses for radon are gathered from a number of sources as well as from anecdotal comments. I'd be delighted to receive corrections as well as additional referenced uses (please use the feedback mechanism to add uses).

occasional therapeutic use earth"uake prediction radiation therapy in hospitals

Krypton
Uses

36 Kr 83.798(2)

The following uses for krypton are gathered from a number of sources as well as from anecdotal comments. I'd be delighted to receive corrections as well as additional referenced uses (please use the feedback mechanism to add uses).

used with argon as a low pressure filling gas for fluorescent lights used in some photographic flash lamps for high speed photography, lamps, '! laser spectral line used for international measurement of a metre

BALLOONS
Have you ever gotten a balloon as a present? You

know how that balloon always tries to float away? That's because there is helium inside. Helium is a very light element. When you put it inside a balloon it tries to float.

THE SUN
Helium is in the Sun. That's right. f you were to look at everything in the sun you would discover large amounts of helium. The Sun is a really big ball of gases and all those gases are on fire. !ne of the results of that fire is helium.

COMPRESSED AIR TANKS

Whenever you see a S"#$% diver in the water& you should know that he has some helium in his air tank. 'ivers combine helium and regular air in those tanks at very high pressures. When they go deep in the water the helium makes it easier for them to breathe.

LASERS
Sometimes helium is used in lasers. t's a good element to use because it is non(reactive. )ven at really high temperatures helium will not bond with other elements.

COOLANTS
*uclear +eactors use helium as coolant. When helium is in a li,uid form it is a very low temperature. $ecause a reactor can be very hot& scientists need something very cool to keep everything under control.

ROCKET FUEL
Whenever you see *%S% shoot a rocket into space they are using helium. When they launch rockets into space& they sometimes use helium to cool the engines.

BLIMPS
*e-t time you go to a football game you might see a blimp. That blimp is using helium to stay up in the air. Helium is lighter than regular air so it helps things float. % blimp is filled with helium and floats for a very long time. They use propellers to move around.