Topic

Gases

3 questions tagged Gases — spanning every one of the seven Ws.

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Which element has the lowest density?

Hydrogen has the lowest density of any element, about 0.09 g/L as a gas at standard conditions.

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Whose discovery made argon the first noble gas identified on Earth?

Lord Rayleigh’s and William Ramsay’s. They discovered argon in 1894 as an unusual component of air.

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Whose discovery showed that the element krypton was hidden in liquefied air?

William Ramsay’s and Morris Travers’s. In 1898 they discovered krypton while fractionating liquid air.

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