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krypton
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A compromise was needed; a mixture of krypton and argon proved suitable. ▪ A good choice is one of the inert gases; neon, argon, krypton , or xenon. ▪ For matrix materials like methane, nitrogen, krypton and xenon, this is not ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air [syn: Kr , atomic number 36 ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Krypton (styled KRYPTON ) is a frame-based computer programming language .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inert gaseous element, 1898, coined by its discoverers (Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers) from Greek krypton , neuter of adjective kryptos "hidden" (see crypt ); so called because it was so difficult to find.
Usage examples of krypton.
Bodine drives the truck right on into what used to be the stable and they all get out, Shirley hoorahing in the moonlight, Krypton mumbling oboy, oboy through big mouthfuls of that frau bait.
The atomic numbers of the five noble gases are: helium 2, neon 10, argon 18, krypton 36, and xenon 54.
The impulse entered a dividing network using kryton switches - each of them a small and exceedingly fast device using self-ionized and radioactive krypton gas to time its discharges with remarkable precision.
The amount of oxygen was about the same as that of the rare gas krypton on Earth-less than a tenth of one per cent.
It was quite a simple idea, and went something like this: What if Kal-El of Krypton, escaping his home planet's destruction, had landed in the late Soviet Union instead of Smallville, U.