Krypton
By: Adriana Brown
History
- Discovered in 1898
- Found by Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers
- Took place in Great Britain
Uses
- With Argon in the filling of fluorescent lights
- Used in some photographic flash lamps for high-speed photograph
- Lamps
- UV-laser spectral line used for international measurement of a meter
Description
- Colorless gas
- No odor
- When solid, has a crystalline structure with a face-entered structure
- The crystalline structure is very common in rare gases
Biology (In humans)
- Different bodies have different amounts of Krypton
- There is an equation you can use to find out how much your body contains
Geology (In the universe)
- Present in the air
- Extent of about 1 ppm
- Mars contains a little amount of Krypton
Properties
- Thermal Conductivity
- Bond energy in gaseous species KrKr is 5.23 kJ
Interesting Facts
- Not abundant in Earth's atmosphere
- Every Krypton atom = About 8200 argon atoms
- About 184000 oxygen molecules
- 685000 nitrogen molecules
- Used in the atmosphere to detect nuclear weapons research and production facilities