Answer:
The correct option is;
New technology showed how to identify one of the elements
Step-by-step explanation:
The unexpected discovery of argon, which is one of the inert gases, by Lord Rayleigh in 1892, when he observed while attempting to determine more reliable atomic weights by carrying out gas density measurements through experiments that yielded more exact results, that the density of nitrogen obtained from the atmosphere was different from that from pure ammonia
The suspected gas which was the cause of the observation was isolated by removing all the other known gases in the air and with the aid of its emission spectra, which was a new technique of distinguishing materials, metals and gases, William Ramsay was able to show that it was a new chemical species.