rare gas
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Inside these zircon grains is a rare gas known as krypton.
From Science Daily
The challenge was measuring small variations of an exceedingly rare gas, which Yeung says was akin to weighing a Boeing 737 jet to within the weight of a grain of sand.
From Science Magazine
At one of the rare gas stations, which also boasted a food truck, one family told me they just spent $90 filling up on gas — and they had cut back on summer activities to keep costs in check.
From Washington Post
The meter is now denned as 1,650,763.73 wave lengths of the orange-red light given off by electrically excited krypton 86, a rare gas extracted from the atmosphere.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is entirely within the realms of possibility that friction between the atmosphere of the earth and these very rare gas clouds should leave the earth with a positive charge.
From Time Magazine Archive
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