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Krypton
Krypton – Krypton – Krypton – Criptón – クリプトン – Криптон – 氪
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Indo-European
Krypton Latin Germanic
Kripton AfrikaansKrypton Danish Krypton German Krypton English Krypton Faroese Krypton Frisian (West) Krypton Icelandic Krypton Luxembourgish Krypton Dutch Krypton Norwegian Krypton Swedish Italic
Criptón AragoneseCripton Aromanian Criptón Asturian Criptó Catalan Criptón Spanish Krypton French Criton Friulian Cripton Galician Kripto Italian Cript Lombard Cripton Occitan Krípton Portuguese Kripton Romanian - Moldovan Slavic
Криптон [Kripton] BulgarianKripton Bosnian Крыптон [krypton] Belarusian Krypton Czech Kripton Croatian Kriptón Kashubian Криптон [Kripton] Macedonian Krypton Polish Криптон [Kripton] Russian Kryptón Slovak Kripton Slovenian Криптон [Kripton] Serbian Криптон [krypton] Ukrainian Baltic
Kriptonas LithuanianKriptons Latvian Kriptuons Samogitian Celtic
Kripton BretonKrupton Welsh Crioptón Gaelic (Irish) Criopton Gaelic (Scottish) Krypton Gaelic (Manx) Crypton Cornish Other Indo-European
Κρυπτο [krypto] GreekԿրիպտոն [kripton] Armenian Kripton, ²Kryptoni Albanian Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Kripton KurdishКриптон [kripton] Ossetian Криптон [Kripton] Tajik Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
ক্রিপ্টন [kripṭana] Bengaliکریپتون [kryptwn] Persian ક્રિપ્ટૉનનો [kripṭonano] Gujarati क्रिप्टन [kripṭana] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Krüptoon EstonianKrypton Finnish Kripton Hungarian Криптон [Kripton] Komi Криптон [Kripton] Mari Криптон [kripton] Moksha Krüptoon Võro Altaic
Kripton AzerbaijaniКриптон [Kripton] Chuvash Криптон [kripton] Kazakh Криптон [Kripton] Kyrgyz Криптон [kripton] Mongolian Kripton Turkish كرىپتون [kripton] Uyghur Kripton Uzbek Other (Europe)
Kriptona Basqueკრიპტონი [kriptoni] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
كربتون [kribtūn] Arabicקריפטון [kripton] Hebrew Kripton Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Khiet (氪) Hakkaクリプトン [kuriputon] Japanese 크립톤 [keuribton] Korean คริปทอน [khripthon] Thai Kripton Vietnamese 氪 [ke4 / hak7] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Kripton CebuanoKripton Indonesian Krypton Māori Kripton Malay Other Asiatic
ക്രിപ്റ്റോണ് [kripṟṟōṇ] Malayalamகிரிப்டோன் [kiripţōṉ] Tamil Africa
Kliptoni LingalaKriptone Sesotho Kriptoni Swahili North-America
Kriptón NahuatlSouth-America
Kriptun QuechuaCreole
Kryptoni Sranan TongoArtificial
Kriptono EsperantoNew names
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History & Etymology
After his discovery of Argon, Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), joined by an assistant, Morris W. Travers (1872-1961), continued to search for another member of the expected inert gas family lighter than Argon.
They failed to find such a gas in rare minerals. From a liter of liquid air, they distilled Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Argon had distilled. On 30 May 1898, they observed the spectra of the inert remaining 25 cm3 of the original liter. Unique bright yellow and brilliant green lines suggested a new element which, because it remained hidden in the liquid, they named Krypton, from the Greek κρυπτος [kryptos] = hidden. Since this is heavier then Argon, Krypton was not the expected lighter gas lighter and they continued their search. After a few weeks they found the expected lighter gas, Neon. After the publication by Ramsay and Travers of their findings, Ramsay's friend Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) suggested a better name for Krypton: "La forte raie verte 5566.3 du krypton coïncide sensiblement avec la brillante raie n° 4 (5567) de l’aurore boréale. Dès lors on pour-rait peut-être désigner ce gaz sous le nom plus harmonieux d’eosium, nom qu’il prend la liberté de suggerer a Monsieur Ramsay" (The strong green line 5566.3 of krypton coincides appreciably with the brilliant line n° 4 (5567) of the "aurora borealis" (the northern light). Consequently one could perhaps give this gas the more harmonious name of Eosium, I take the freedom of suggesting this name to Mr. Ramsay. Thus, Eosium from Greek εως [eos] = dawn. Obviously, Ramsay did not follow this suggestions, since the name Eosium is never heard of. (Until Marco Fontani found it again, thanks Marco).
Further reading
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