“…Several gases have been used at ambient temperatures: argon Ar [56,57], nitrogen N 2 [56][57][58], helium He [56,59], ethane C 2 H 6 [60], sulfur hexafluoride SF 6 [56,58,61,62], and air [63]. Globally, the range 60 < Ra < 10 15 of Rayleigh numbers has been spanned with gases.…”