Krypton Facts
Krypton Facts
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| Interesting Krypton Facts: |
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| Krypton was discovered by Sir William Ramsay in 1898 and his student Morris Travers. |
| Ramsay and Travers were studying the residue of boiled liquid air. |
| They found krypton to be left over after oxygen, nitrogen, argon, helium, and water had been removed from the air. |
| Xenon was discovered by this same process only a few weeks later. |
| Krypton is odorless and colorless. |
| It is found in the Earth's atmosphere at one part per million. |
| The atmosphere of Mars has only around .3 parts per million. |
| Krypton is a member of the noble gases. |
| Its key uses were for photography and lighting. |
| Krypton is particularly useful in gas lasers due to its high light emitting in plasma. |
| The definition of a meter was formalized in 1960 using krypton. |
| This definition states that a meter is a wavelength of the kryption-86 isotope. |
| This wavelength is 605.78 nanometers long. |
| The krypton definition changed again in 1983. |
| There are six stable isotopes of krypton that occur in nature. |
| As many as thirty unstable isotopes have been discovered. |
| Concentrations of Kr-85 are 30% higher at the North Pole than they are at the South Pole. |
| This is due to convective mixing. |
| Krypton is found in the Earth's atmosphere at about one part per million. |
| The process of fractional distillation allows krypton to be isolated from liquid air. |
| As a noble gas, the Earth has kept all of its original supply of krypton. |
| Krypton is used as a intense white light source for flash photography due to numerous emission lines. |
| Krypton-83 has medical uses in MRI technology. |
| Krypton is believed to be a non-toxic asphyxia-inducing agent because it displaces breathable air. |
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