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  <dc:title>Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Elmer G Still, Livermore, Alameda Company, California, United States of America</dc:title>
  <dc:description>With reference to Still's letter of the 24th August addressed to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], the word Argon was coined by Rayleigh and Professor [William] Ramsay in connection with their discovery of the new element, described in their paper in 'Proceedings of the Royal Society', volume 57, pages 265-287 and 'Philosophical Transactions [of the Royal Society]', volume 166, part 1, pages 187-241. The name is derived from the Greek for 'no work'. 

Briefly quotes the authors regarding the naming of the element.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>19 September 1896</dc:date>
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