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Argon

Z: 18
Mass: 39.948
Lifeforce: Source

Almost one percent of the air surrounding you right now is argon, and you have never noticed. A gas that binds to nothing, speaks with no one. It is simply there.

A round garden with a clear spring at its center, encircled by flame, bowl, kites and terrace. — Plate · Source The Source needs nothing. It *rests* whole, all forces circling its center.

Argon. Element eighteen. Almost one percent of the air around you, and you have never noticed. A noble gas, content to drift unbound, conversing with nothing.

Lab note · Element eighteen; almost one percent of the air. Being a noble gas, it forms no bonds.

Tool · Cosmic origin

Where your atoms come from

Ar · Star fusion

Forged in the cores of living stars over billions of years of stellar fusion.

14 of the 118 elements share this origin.

Choose a stage: click, or arrow keys. · Cosmic nucleosynthesis · current standard model

Tool · Periodic table

Your place in the system

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