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AIR LIQUIDE Deutschland GmbH, Germany

Air Liquide offers innovative solutions — gas, equipment and services — throughout Germany for a wide variety of industries, from automotive, healthcare, aeronautics, metallurgy and metal fabrication to the chemical and agri-food industries. more

AIR LIQUIDE Forschung und Entwicklung GmbH, Germany

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Linde AG, Linde Gases Division, Germany

Market leader in Europe, worldwide one of the most important suppliers of gases Linde Gas offers products that cover a vast range of applications in industry, medicine, environmental protection, research and development. State-of-the-art application technology and a whole range of gas applications h more

News Argon

• World's first optical atomic clock with highly charged ions
  

  Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measuring instruments ever built and are becoming key tools for basic and applied research, for example to test the constancy of natural constants or for height measurements in geodesy. Now, researchers at the QUEST Institute at the Physikalisch-Technische more

• New mechanisms discovered to separate air
  

  Unlike the windows of your house, nanoscale holes in graphene (named as "nanowindows") can selectively choose which type of air molecules can pass through. Scientists from Shinshu University and PSL University, France, theoretically proved concerted motion of the nanowindow-rim to selectively allow more

• A thermometer for the oceans
  

  The average sea temperature is an essential parameter of the global climate – but it is very difficult to measure. At least until now, because an international team of researchers including Empa scientists have now developed a novel method using the concentration of noble gases in the eternal ice. T more

Infographics Argon

Group 8 Elements

The noble gases are one of the better known groups of elements in the Periodic Table, and whilst some of their applications are obvious, such as the use of helium in balloons, others, such as the use of xenon in medical imaging and as a neuroprotector, or the use of helium as a carrier gas in gas ch more

The Atmospheres of the Solar System

We’re heading out of this world for today’s post, to examine the atmospheric compositions of the other planets in the solar system, as well as our own. Practically every other planet in our solar system can be considered to have an atmosphere, apart from perhaps the extremely thin, transient atmosph more