Krypton Atomic number 36 Sounds mysterious Commentary

London—William Ramsay, Morris Travers elements

Krypton

• The hidden one
• didn’t mingle
• but William Ramsay
• and Morris Travers
• teased it out
• of liquid air.

Atomic number 36

• Six stable isotopes
• produce yellow, green, a blur of white
• for flash photography
• With xenon krypton fills
• incandescent light bulbs
• to reduce evaporation of filaments
• Instead of neon in neon lights
• stained blue, green, yellow,
• orange, red, and pink.

Sounds mysterious

• Sounds mysterious,
• secretive, encrypted
• threatening sci-fi horror.
• Krypton-85 in the atmosphere
• signifies secret nuclear weapon
• research or production.