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The noble gas that only shows up to the party when you trap it and shock it with electricity.
means A colorless, odorless noble gas, number 36 on the periodic table, that glows a pale light when electrified inside a sealed tube.
from From Greek 'kryptos,' meaning 'hidden' — the same root that gives us 'cryptic' and 'crypt.' Discovered in 1898 by chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers, who found it lurking as a tiny residue left behind after they evaporated nearly all the components of liquid air. It had been hiding in plain sight, in every breath, waiting to be boiled out.
- name origin
- greek for hidden, because it basically hid from chemists
- superman link
- borrowed, not scientific, superman predates its fame
- reactivity
- so inert it barely bothers forming compounds
- everyday use
- glows in some camera flashes and high end windows