This market covers a large number of gases, the most prominent of them (with market share in parenthesis) being: argon and hydrogen (34.2%); nitrogen (13.5%); Fluorocarbon gases (12.5%); oxygen (10.5%); carbon dioxide (6.3%) and acetylene (1.6%).

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2008
Market size: $9.94 billion
Source: Annual Survey of Manufactures, 2008, March 30, 2010 available online here.
Original source: U.S. Bureau of the Census