Eli5, if I left some valuable collectible, say, a car or a paining in am hermetically sealed room filled with pure argon and nothing else, and had it completely protected from UV radiation, would it ever decay or degrade?

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Eli5, if I left some valuable collectible, say, a car or a paining in am hermetically sealed room filled with pure argon and nothing else, and had it completely protected from UV radiation, would it ever decay or degrade?

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I mean, eventually the atoms making it up will break down and disintegrate… But we will all be very long gone before that happens. And by we, I mean all life on Earth… and the Earth itself…

But I don’t think that is what you are asking.