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Kr Krypton

36 36 48 State: Gas
Discovery: 1898
When this camera’s
Krypton-based
Noble Gases Forms This sample of flash activates, it’s lasers illuminate
this building.
a result of krypton
krypton is trapped
Pure krypton in a glass sphere
being electrified by
in a glass sphere.
the camera’s battery.

Digital camera

Sir William
Ramsey won a
Nobel Prize
in Chemistry for
discovering the Laser lighting
noble gases. Plasma ball

Krypton is a transparent
gas but it glows with
a blue-white light when
electricity flows through it.

Uses

This globe
contains a mixture
of noble gases,
including krypton.

This energy-
efficient bulb
contains krypton.
Incandescent bulb

The word krypton means the “hidden one” a very bright white light when electrified
in Greek. This element exists as an inert gas with a current, which makes it ideal for
in nature, which means that it does not react use in flash bulbs. Krypton can react with
with almost any other element. Krypton is not the element fluorine to form the compound
found in any minerals and only tiny amounts of krypton fluoride, which is used to power
196 it can be found in the air. Pure krypton produces some kinds of laser.

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