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    With which scientist did William Ramsay show in 1894 that air also contained an element unknown until then, which was named argon?
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    With which scientist did William Ramsay show in 1894 that air also contained an element unknown until then, which was named argon?

    A.

    Lord Rayleigh

    B.

    Hermann Staudinger

    C.

    Glenn Seaborg

    D.

    Harold Urey

    Correct option is A

    William Ramsay worked with Lord Rayleigh when they discovered the noble gas argon in 1894. This discovery was pivotal as it led to the identification of the noble gases as a new group in the periodic table.
    Hermann Staudinger was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
    Glenn Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
    Harold Urey Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium.

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