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> The cost of xenon is roughly $10 per liter. For comparison, helium, another noble gas, costs around 10 cents per liter. Argon and neon cost about $2 per liter
by vasco 2y ago
> The cost of xenon is roughly $10 per liter. For comparison, helium, another noble gas, costs around 10 cents per liter. Argon and neon cost about $2 per liter each.
From another link in the comments: https://tripsitter.substack.com/p/xenon https://tripsitter.substack.com/p/xenon
- killjoywashere 2y agoah, rich people sports...
- dugditches 2y agoPretty sure your source is wrong. And that helium is 10_$_ a liter not 10¢. As helium is much, much more expensive than argon.
- eesmith 2y agoYou likely meant to write 'xenon' there, not 'helium'. FWIW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon has > Because of its scarcity, xenon is much more expensive than the lighter noble gases—approximate prices for the purchase of small quantities in Europe in 1999 were 10 €/L (=~€1.7/g) for xenon, 1 €/L (=~€0.27/g) for krypton, and 0.20 €/L (=~€0.22/g) for neon,
- adrian_b 2y agoPerhaps the helium price is right, but argon is certainly much cheaper. That price of argon might be per cubic meter, not per liter. The price of argon is essentially zero for the argon itself, which forms one percent of the air. What you pay is only the energy required to separate it from dioxygen and dinitrogen, e.g. by liquefaction and distillation. EDIT: Googling now, I see prices for argon around half of dollar per kilogram. A cubic meter of argon has slightly less than 1.8 kg, so the price of argon is at most 1 $ per cubic meter. A liter is one thousand times less than a cubic meter, so the price per liter is one tenth of a cent.
- dreamcompiler 2y agoI buy a big tank of argon periodically for TIG welding. I don't remember what I last paid but it was cheap. Decades ago I used helium but it's much too expensive for hobby welding now.