托福阅读训练： 元周期表中稀有气体元素.docVIP

托福阅读训练: 元素周期表中稀有气体元素 小马过河为大家准备了“托福阅读训练: 元素周期表中稀有气体元素”， 供各位备考托福的考生们参考使用，来提高自己的托福成绩！免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 　　The structure of the periodic table appeared to limit the number of possible elements. It was therefore quite surprising when John William Strut (Lord Rayleigh), discovered a gaseous element in 1894 that did not fit into the previous classification scheme. A century earlier, Henry Cavendish had noted the existence of a residual gas when oxygen and nitrogen are removed from air, but its importance had not been realized. Together with William Ramsay, Rayleigh isolated the gas (separating it from other substances into its pure state) and named it argon. Ramsay then studied a gas that was present in natural gas deposits and discovered that it was helium, an element whose presence in the Sun had been noted earlier in the spectrum of sunlight but that had not previously been known on Earth. Rayleigh and Ramsay postulated the existence of a new group of elements, and in 1898 other members of the series (neon, krypton, and xenon) were isolated. 　　元素周期表的框架限定了可能存在的元素的数量。因此当约翰威廉姆斯杜尔特在1894年发现了一种气体元素并不适合于先前的元素分类表格，这是相当令人惊讶的。一个世纪以前亨利卡文迪许已经注意到当氧气和氮气从空气中被分离后仍然有剩余气体存在，但是这种气体的重要性并没有被人们充分意识到。雷利和威廉姆拉姆齐共同分离出了一种气体(将之与其他物质隔离存放于一个纯净的环境)并将它命名为氩。拉姆齐后来研究了一种存在于天然气沉积物中的气体氦。这种元素存在于太阳中，并且早些时候在太阳光谱中出现时就被注意到，但是之前并没有在地球上并没有被发现过。雷利和拉姆齐认为有一组新的元素存在，这组元素中的其他成员也在1898年被成功分离出来(氖，氪，氙)。 来源于：小马过河 相关推荐： 托福阅读常出现的9个深度句 托福阅读利剑之语法 托福阅读解题方法之《主旨题》 全国免费咨询电话：400-0123-267