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Nature 406, 836-837 (24 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35022678
Chemistry: Another noble gas conquered
Gernot Frenking
On page 874 of this issue Khriachtchev et al.1 report the synthesis of the first compound containing the noble gas argon. This leaves only two stable elements in the periodic table — helium and neon — for which no neutral compound exists.
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