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IN NATURE of March 15 I published a diagram in which the abundance of the different species of atoms—up to mass number 79—was plotted on a log scale against their mass numbers. I have now extended this, with a small gap, up to mass number 142, and what was fairly obvious before has become, by the inclusion of the region containing xenon, a very striking feature. This is the abnormal scarcity of the inert gases.
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ASTON, F. The Rarity of the Inert Gases on the Earth. Nature 114, 786 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114786a0
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