Way back when Gourmet Chef Elaine and I were dating, we played trivia with a group of friends at a local watering hole named Bosco's. One of the questions was "What's the third most gas that makes up air" to which I immediately wrote down "argon". She looked at me and asked, "How on earth do you know that!?" Well, I'm a geek, pure and simple, and that was my value to our trivia group. She brings a vast amount of medical knowledge and each member of the group had their specialties, and we always did well.
The name "argon" is derived from the Greek word meaning 'lazy' or 'inactive', as a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions. And I just had to buy the coffee mug shown below as a remembrance.
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