London—William Ramsay,
Morris Travers
elements
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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.
William Ramsay and Morris Travers were looking in liquid air for a new element lighter than argon. After they found krypton, heaver than argon, they kept looking until they found neon.
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