Argon is element 18, a noble gas of the p block, in group 18, period 3. Its ground-state configuration is [Ne] 3s2 3p6, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0.
It was discovered in 1894, by Ramsay and Rayleigh.
Name origin: the Greek argos, 'idle'.
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