Argon is inexpensive, since it occurs naturally in air and is readily obtained as a byproduct of cryogenic air separation in the production of liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen: the primary constituents of air are used on a large industrial scale.
Argon tidak mahal karena ia terdapat secara alami di udara, dan siap didapat sebagai produk samping pemisahan udara kryogenik dalam produksi oksigen cair dan nitrogen cair: konstituen utama udara digunakan pada industri skala besar.