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Citizen U
Day 36 – KRYPTON.
OPEN THREAD 20191212
Published
The U Tree 
Krypton is a noble gas that is named after Superman’s home planet. It is not to be confused with kryptonite, a substance that can drain Superman’s powers — a substance that, BTW, probably contains no krypton because noble gases generally form no compounds with other common elements. Those compounds that are formed are designated in chemistry texts with the bar sinister.
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Krypton was actually isolated BEFORE neon, in 1898, by the same guys who did neon a couple of weeks later using the same procedures — William Ramsay and Morris Travers. Although Travers was English and Ramsay a Scot, there is no record of how they dealt with repeatedly raiding and invading each others’ workbenches. When challenged about their source of interstellar knowledge, they attributed the name “krypton” to the Greek “κρυπτός” [the hidden one]. Contemporary reports of a guy in blue tights with a red cape were suppressed.
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Alternative science! I like it! So 90’s! Didn’t Matthew Sweet have a song about this? Or was that somebody else? 😉
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Krypton has been known to react with fluorine to form both KrF and KrF2 under very special conditions, which the reader is advised to stay well clear of — being that they generally involve extreme pressures, extreme energy levels, and the presence of fluorine gas.
It’s actually quite popular for “neon” tubes. It gives off a bright white light when excited and is even used in some red pseudo-neon work with a red filter because the light is brighter.
Oh, and you can asphyxiate yourself with it — although not as cheaply as nitrogen. The same partial-pressures thing that has you lose oxygen when you inhale applies to noble gases as well, but faster because there’s no nitrogen in-and-out to buffer the effect.
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I could probably have stopped with the last one —
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“Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
“Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true.”
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But, what the heck…..
https://fiftytwoyears52weeks.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/mild-mannered-supermen-are-held-in-kryptonite/
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Peter Gabriel’s The Carpet Crawlers
a very fine song..
I’m reposting it from the blog link you posted there, if you don’t mind, b/c it’s such a fine song and if ppl don’t click on yr link, they’ll miss it.
🙂
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I thought the framing story of a guy’s kid spontaneously singing the chorus of a song from 25 years prior to the kid’s conception put it in the right frame…..but, sure, let’s go there……
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Nice to wake up to real news. Carry on!
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surprisingly good article from the left-wing progressive Rolling Stone …
article, here…
“Corroboration Zero” : An Inspector General’s Report Reveals The Steele Dossier Was Always A Joke
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/horowitz-report-steele-dossier-collusion-news-media-924944/
Dec 10, 2019
by Matt Taibbi
The report throws water on one “deep state” conspiracy theory of the Russian investigation but validates complaints about “fake news”.
worth reading.
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My comments:
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butt-covering
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Nadler and the Dems push ahead with impeachment despite polls….Pastor Marty ! 😀
latest !
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And with this we now head off into another long run of metals.
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Hope I kept them in order so we don’t experience any Queuemismatic errors and oddities! 😉
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Well, let’s see, we got rubidium, strontium, yttrium, zirconium, niobium, moly-be-damned, technetium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, cadmium, indium, tin, antimony, selenium, iodine and xenon coming up.
(Yes, that was from memory.)
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You say that like it’s a bad thing…..
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It’s not–some of those are really cool metals.
Just want to prepare muggles who might think metals are boring, for what’s coming up.
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(I confess to an inordinate fondness for the PGMs and now they’re finally in sight.)
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