The discovery of the noble gases

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Source: Story: Jim Ottaviani / Art: Roger Langridge

How an extra line in the solar spectrum kicked off a search for the ‘missing metals’ that turned out to be noble gases

Enjoy our comic telling how the noble gases helium, argon, neon and krypton were discovered by Lockyer, Ramsay and Rayleigh