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  2. Krypton - Wikipedia

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    Krypton is highly volatile and does not stay in solution in near-surface water, but 81 Kr has been used for dating old (50,000–800,000 years) groundwater. [ 25 ] 85 Kr is an inert radioactive noble gas with a half-life of 10.76 years.

  3. Krypton (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Krypton is usually portrayed in comics as the home of a fantastically advanced civilization, which is destroyed when the planet explodes. As originally depicted, all the civilizations and races of Krypton perished in the explosion, with one exception: the baby Kal-El who was placed in an escape rocket by his father, Jor-El, and sent to the planet Earth, where he grew up to become Superman.

  4. Kryptonite - Wikipedia

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    Kryptonite is a fictional material that appears primarily in Superman stories published by DC Comics.In its best-known form, it is a green, crystalline material originating from Superman's home world of Krypton that emits a unique, poisonous radiation that can weaken and even kill Kryptonians.

  5. Kryptonian - Wikipedia

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    The people of Argo (which is often portrayed as a city on Krypton itself that is protected from destruction by a forcefield but in some continuities is a Kryptonian colony on a moon or neighboring planet) also survive Krypton's destruction due to an energy field surrounding the city, although in most universes they either die out soon afterward ...

  6. Satya Nadella explains why Microsoft's quantum 'breakthrough ...

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    Microsoft unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum chip the company says is powered by a new state of matter. The new chip allows for more stable, scalable, and simplified quantum computing, the company says.

  7. Noble gas - Wikipedia

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    For instance, argon, krypton, and xenon form clathrates with hydroquinone, but helium and neon do not because they are too small or insufficiently polarizable to be retained. [61] Neon, argon, krypton, and xenon also form clathrate hydrates, where the noble gas is trapped in ice. [62] An endohedral fullerene compound containing a noble gas atom

  8. The tiny planet-not-planet that could: Pluto was discovered ...

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    Pluto's reign. For decades, students learned the phrase "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" to remember the order of the planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars ...

  9. Isotopes of krypton - Wikipedia

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    Krypton-81 is useful in determining how old the water beneath the ground is. [10] Radioactive krypton-81 is the product of spallation reactions with cosmic rays striking gases present in the Earth atmosphere, along with the six stable or nearly stable krypton isotopes. [11] Krypton-81 has a half-life of about 229,000 years.