Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen

  • @meco03211
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    82 years ago

    Pretty sure argon is one of the most expensive gasses to harvest/mine.

    • @datelmd5sum
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      52 years ago

      Argon is the third-most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere, at 0.934%.

      Argon is used in welding and costs slightly more than oxygen.

      • @meco03211
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        22 years ago

        But is oxygen cheap? Oxygen is easy enough to filter out of the air, but storage and shipping are not simple. By contrast as you filter out oxygen, you’re leaving basically pure nitrogen (sure with argon and the other various gasses in negligible quantities.). I truly don’t know. Would be happy to be educated one way or another.