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Atomic
Number:
Atomic Weight:
Element Type:
Crystal
Structure:
Melting Point:
Boiling Point:
Critical
Temp:
Atomic Radius:
Covalent Radius:
Electronegativity:
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83.8
Noble Gas
Cubic Face Centered
-157.36°C = -251.248°F = 115.79 K
-153.22°C = -243.796°F = 119.93 K
: -63.74°C = -82.732°F = 209.41 K
1.03 Å (Å = Angstrom = 10-10 m)
1.12 Å
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Discovery
(Gr. kryptos, hidden) Discovered in 1898 by Ramsay and
Travers in the residue leftafter liquid air had nearly boiled
away. In 1960 it was internationally agreed that thefundamental
unit of length, the meter, should be defined in terms of
the orange-redspectral line of 86Kr. This replaced the standard
meter of Paris, which was defined interms of a bar made
of a platinum-iridium alloy. In October 1983 the meter,
whichoriginally was defined as being one ten millionth of
a quadrant of the earth's polarcircumference, was again
redefined by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures
asbeing the length of a path traveled by light in a vacuum
during a time interval of1/299,792,458 of a second.
Sources
Krypton is present in the air to the extent of about 1
ppm. The atmosphere of Mars hasbeen found to contain 0.3
ppm of krypton. Solid krypton is a white crystalline substancewith
a face-centered cubic structure which is common to all the
"rare gases."
Isotopes
There are 23 known isotopes of krypton, 6 stable and 17
unstable. Natural krypton contains the 6 stable isotopes.
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