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Krypton, like the other noble gases, is used in lighting and photography. Krypton light has many spectral lines, and krypton plasma is useful in bright, high-powered gas lasers (krypton ion and excimer lasers), each of which resonates and amplifies a single spectral line. Krypton fluoride also makes a useful laser medium.
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.
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.
As presented in the World of Krypton miniseries and other stories from the Silver Age of Comic Books, Jor-El is Krypton's leading scientist, inventing, among other devices, a self-titled hovercar. He also discovers a parallel plane of existence which he calls the Phantom Zone and invents a device that can open portals to it. This device gets ...
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 ...
Kandor (commonly known as the Bottle City of Kandor) [1] is a fictional city spared from the doomed world of Krypton in DC Comics' Superman titles. Before Krypton exploded, the futuristic city was captured by the supervillain Brainiac, miniaturized by his shrinking ray and placed inside a glass bell jar.
Krypton octahedra (green) are surrounded by randomly oriented hydrogen molecules. [ 29 ] Prior to 1962, the only isolated compounds of noble gases were clathrates (including clathrate hydrates ); other compounds such as coordination compounds were observed only by spectroscopic means. [ 4 ]
Krypton is a chemical element with symbol Kr and atomic number 36. Krypton may also refer to: Krypton (comics) , a fictional planet and the birthplace of Kal-El, better known as Superman