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Argon vs Nitrogen

Argon and Nitrogen are genuine alternatives to one another — a choice somebody actually makes — and differ on 2 measured properties, molar mass most clearly.

Argon vs Nitrogen

Argon

Ar

The cheapest inert atmosphere available, because it is already a percent of the air.

Nitrogen

N

Seventy-eight percent of the air, almost entirely unreactive, and the element whose industrial fixation roughly doubled the number of people the planet can feed.

Property comparison of Argon and Nitrogen
PropertyArgonNitrogen
Atomic number18 higher7
Melting point

Only one of the two has a figure we can stand behind, so there is nothing to compare.

-189.34 °CNot known
Molar mass39.95 g/mol higher14.007 g/mol

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