How To Use Krypton In A Sentence
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While krypton has a considerable vapour pressure at the temperature of boiling air, the vapour pressure of xenon is hardly appreciable; hence their separation, although tedious, presented no particular difficulty.
Sir William Ramsay - Nobel Lecture
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Although the density of the new gas, which we named "krypton" or
Sir William Ramsay - Nobel Lecture
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He's included chairs with a germ-resistant fabric called krypton (ph) and a seating area for families.
CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2009
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Superman is the all-powerful being whose only weakness is kryptonite.
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While he admits that "the word jazz is like kryptonite" to many potential listeners, he also believes that "it represents tolerance.
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But, the Daily Mirror revealed in May, it will pump deadly Krypton gas back into the atmosphere.
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Sometimes a mixture of krypton and argon are used instead of the mercury.
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Is it that grains are like kryptonite to her - she cannot sense them until it's too late?
Times, Sunday Times
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I stood out, collar up against the drizzle, and held up the krypton lamp.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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This calorimeter, which contains 400 kilograms of liquid krypton, detected the photon pairs.
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Following directly after Last Stand of New Krypton #2 – where Kandor gets rebottled ..
2010 April « Show Me SciFi
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Joined: December 7th, 2002, 4: 34 am kryptonite wrote: sld & wildcatray: After logging into AMO, I see this niftly little thing called "Ignore Version Check.
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The rightmost column in any self-respecting periodic table should certainly be the noble gases (Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, Radon, Ununoctium).
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According to Arnie Gunderson, a former U.S. nuclear power plant operator: events over the last day indicate that volatile radioactive elements such as xenon, krypton, cesium, iodine, and strontium are already being released from the Fufushima nuclear reactor.
Robert Alvarez: Meltdown: The Japanese Earthquake and Fukushima Reactors
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These things are like kryptonite to terrorists.
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Remember when polystyrene foam was environmental kryptonite?
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Did the Raiders uncover Pennington's kryptonite?
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First, a range of less-dangerous gases are liberated, including tritium, krypton and xenon.
Low Levels of Radioactive Material Begin to Be Detected Across Pacific
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The noble gases helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon display fairly simple chemistry in material of solar composition.
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Along with helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon, it is classed as an inert gas within group 0 of the periodic table.
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The relative difficulty in identifying certain elements has given birth to such names as lanthanum, krypton and dysprosium.
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He's Superman in black, with no Kryptonite in sight.
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Krypton in today's atmosphere is somewhat heavier than solar krypton, and the krypton embedded in meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites is even heavier than that.
Scientific American
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it's a little frustrating to see titles like 'lobo', 'venom' or even 'sgt. rock' getting green lights, while the last son of krypton sits in neutral, you know? it's nice to see the lesser known's branch out and gain more awareness, but it just seems wrong - to me - that of all the titles, this one is getting the cold shoulder.
Fan Trailer and Campaign For An Extended Cut of Superman Returns | /Film
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Now he's comedy kryptonite, the comic other comedians dare not get close to.
Times, Sunday Times
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Given the regular news reports of enterprise data lost through laptop theft, third party misfeasance, WEP hacking, loss of backup tapes, disgruntled employees, etc., it’s not like enterprise data is currently held in impregnable Kryptonite fortresses.
Another Half-Dozen Half-Truths of the Cloud
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They attributed those lines to the presence of three new elements, which they named neon, krypton, and xenon.
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The x-ray photons trigger the ejection of krypton electrons with varying angular distributions of momenta modulated by the oscillating laser field.
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Those compounds and elements include gases such as argon, krypton and xenon, and the proportions of those elements in carbonaceous chondrites don't match what's found on Earth.
Earth contains a vast amount of water, but scientists are unsure of its origins
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Places stress on krypton lamp current repair and light channel adjustment.
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Other gasses - such as argon and krypton - can be used in the space between the glass panes instead of air.
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But turn single in your forties, dude, and you are relationship kryptonite.
Times, Sunday Times
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Queues are kryptonite to hospitality; syrup of figs to standing still.
Times, Sunday Times
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My favourite Superman comic book stories are Kingdom Come it's essentially a Superman story, and it was a bright spot in the mid 90s when I was otherwise unable to collect comics, the 50s story where Superman goes undercover as a steeplejack to get dirt on a shady construction kingpin, Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite, the Superman/Spider-Man 70s crossovers, Up, Up, and Away... there's too many more I could name.
Happy 70th Birthday, Superman!! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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However, some windows use argon or krypton in this space to improve thermal performance.
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Tall, rangy, smart, powerful southpaws who can box might be Roy's kryptonite.
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People shriek about the portrayal of Teabaggers in Captain America, but have no problem with the dim-witted idea of 100,000 Kryptonians immigrating to Earth or the Green Goblin being put in charge of National Security.
What Price Super-Heroics?
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I'm doing fine. archmage: Whoo, that's me, Mr.Exciting. daemonwise: Now I really hate you. daemonwise: Cheez-Its are my kryptonite. archmage: Apparently, I'm the Lex Luthor of IM.
Morning IM Villainy
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Later, in 1898 he also discovered, by fractional distillation of liquid air, neon ( "the new one"), krypton ( "the hidden one") and xenon ( "the strange one").
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
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‘It's kryptonite for both sides,’ one travelling official said, and in a exquisitely poised contest like this, neither wants to risk disaster.
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It has lent its guarded endorsement to KAN - an acronym of krypton, argon and neon.
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But the deadliest kryptonite against a superhero is boredom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spoken dialogue -- Kryptonite for even the starriest of singers -- was treated with wince-inducing amateurishness except by Guetti, the lone singer here able to deliver non-sung text in a credible way, and baritone Charlie Hyland (the evening's appealing, handsomely sung Papageno), who made a brave stab at the comedy.
In performance: Magic Flute (Summer Music Festival 2010)
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Consider windows that fill that space with gases like argon, krypton, or a mix of the two.
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CBF imaging is based on the scintillation detection of the rates in which inert freely diffusible radioisotopes e.g., krypton 85, 133xenon are cleared from the brain following intracarotid injection or inhalation.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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That is like the heavyweight's kryptonite.
Times, Sunday Times
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A good D-lock costs about 50 bux (kryptonite in north america, oxford in uk/ireland).
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Eleven o'clock I went with a krypton handlamp and a small jeweller's loupe to look at the painting.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Krypton and xenon also find commercial lighting applications.
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[profane] lebron in a dunk contest with kryptonate and superman, and tha king is here to show who ye rule this land. but nooooooooooooooooooooo, he dropps out lame, all those damn fans are dissapointed. hey lamebron do it for the fans come out as silver surfer, spiderman, jay-z i dont care just do it!
Yahoo! Sports - Top News
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In television, a medium where you can't move for unfunny, awkward, comedy-kryptonite quartets, that's gold dust.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've also lost other gases like nitrogen, xenon, krypton - they've all been lost from the atmosphere.
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They attributed those lines to the presence of three new elements, which they named neon, krypton, and xenon.
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All are present in the gas as the monatomic elements and argon, krypton, and xenon undergo condensation to either ices or clathrate hydrates at sufficiently low temperatures.
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As David Puttnam has been saying for years, the biggest risk in Hollywood at the moment is making a mid-priced, artistically adventurous movie which has a great script but no stars or special effects, ie the kind of film that studios now view as potential financial Kryptonite.
Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people
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The nanny state is political kryptonite.
Times, Sunday Times
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The x-ray photons trigger the ejection of krypton electrons with varying angular distributions of momenta modulated by the oscillating laser field.
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When an electrical current is passed through an evacuated tube containing krypton gas, a very bright white light is produced.
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Like other elements in Group 18, krypton is chemically inert.
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But it's the snacking, even on so-called ‘healthy foods,’ in between meals that's my kryptonite.
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They'll be lucky with relationship kryptonite — the in-laws — there ...
The Sun
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The noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon) possess full octets, which they guard closely (notice their high ionization energies and small atomic radii), and tend not to interact with other atoms.
Wolfram Blog : What’s Your Favorite Element?
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They attributed those lines to the presence of three new elements, which they named neon, krypton, and xenon.
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Fluorine can react with noble gases such as krypton and xenon.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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My style was kryptonite to his; he never really landed anything clean on me.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the early 1960s, a number of chemists found ways of making compounds of some noble gases, including radon, xenon, and krypton.
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Eleven o'clock I went with a krypton handlamp and a small jeweller's loupe to look at the painting.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Other gasses - such as argon and krypton - can be used in the space between the glass panes instead of air.
