Chemicals/Kryptons

Krypton is a chemical element that is a colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas that occurs in trace amounts in the Earth's atmosphere.

Plasmas
Glass tubes, with a wire wound over each directs the plasma flow.

Gases
Krypton is a noble gas.

Liquids
Liquid krypton is used to construct quasi-homogeneous electromagnetic calorimeters, for example, the calorimeter of the NA48 experiment at CERN containing about 27 tonnes of liquid krypton.

Solids
Solid krypton is white and has a face-centered cubic crystal structure, which is a common property of all noble gases (except helium, which has a hexagonal close-packed crystal structure).

Isotopes
Krypton has 5 stable isotopes (80, 82, 83, 84, 86).

Naturally occurring krypton in Earth's atmosphere is composed of five stable isotopes, plus one isotope (78Kr) with such a long half-life (9.2×1021 years) that it can be considered stable. (This isotope has the second-longest known half-life among all isotopes for which decay has been observed; it undergoes double electron capture to 78Se). In addition, about thirty unstable isotopes and nuclear isomers are known. Traces of 81Kr, a cosmogenic nuclide produced by the cosmic ray irradiation of 80Kr, also occur in nature: this isotope is radioactive with a half-life of 230,000 years. Krypton is highly volatile and does not stay in solution in near-surface water, but 81Kr has been used for radiometric dating old (50,000–800,000 years) groundwater.

Atmospheres
Krypton-85 (85Kr) is an inert radioactive noble gas with a half-life of 10.76 years, produced by the nuclear fission of uranium and plutonium, such as in nuclear bomb testing and nuclear reactors. 85Kr is released during the reprocessing of fuel rods from nuclear reactors. Concentrations at the North Pole are 30% higher than at the South Pole due to convective mixing.

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