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1. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube;
   One of the six inert gasses;
   Occurs in the air in small amounts (synset 114670330)
   is a type of:

   • chemical element, element - any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
   • argonon, inert gas, noble gas - any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table
   substance meronym: air - a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
   same as: atomic number 10, neon
2. The compass point midway between north and east;
   At 45 degrees (synset 113854042)
   is a type of: compass point, point - any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
   same as: nor'-east, northeast, northeastward
3. A midwestern state on the Great Plains (synset 109132074)
   is an instance of: american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
   has:

   • bad lands, badlands - an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
   • grand island - a town in south central Nebraska
   • capital of nebraska, lincoln - capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska
   • north platte - a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River
   • omaha - largest city in Nebraska; located in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri river; a major transportation center of the Midwest
   • north platte, north platte river - a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River
   • platte, platte river - a river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
   • republican, republican river - a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas
   • south platte, south platte river - a tributary of the Platte River
   is a part of:

   • middle west, midwest, midwestern united states - the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)
   • america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
   same as: cornhusker state, neb., nebraska

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