What is it?
Almost one percent of the air you are breathing, and the cheapest way to keep oxygen away from hot metal.
Why does it matter?
Argon shielding is what makes modern welding, silicon crystal growth and titanium melting possible at all.
Deeper written sections for this material have not been published yet. Everything below is drawn straight from the source datasets and is complete.
Read the numbers correctly.
Reported in millions of cubic metres of gas.
Gaseous and liquid argon from air separation units.