Krypton
This is the front side of the game card for Krypto the Krypton Horned Unicorn. Click the pic to take a look at all the fun info on the back. Use it as a memorization tool, a trading card or as science class prizes and rewards.
Article – The Magical Periodic Table Element – Krypton – https://sybrina.com/2024/01/07/the-magical-periodic-table-element-krypton/
Article – The World of Krypton Revisited – https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2538
Article – The Kryptonite Formula – https://phys.org/news/2016-03-superman-worryingweve-formula-kryptonite.html
Article – Krypton (Kr) – Discovery, Occurrence, Production, Properties and Applications of Krypton – https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7923
Article – Deep Mantle Krypton Reveals Earth’s Outer Solar System Ancestry https://phys.org/news/2021-12-deep-mantle-krypton-reveals-earth.html
Article About Krypton Discoverer – https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1904/ramsay/biographical/ and http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Te-Va/Travers-Morris.html
Fact Sheet – https://study.com/learn/lesson/what-is-krypton-atomic-number-symbol.html
Fact Sheet – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/krypton
Fact Sheet – https://www.echemi.com/cms/478940.html
Video – https://youtu.be/_oa1QfHTts0
Lesson – https://youtu.be/dYMfEnmgaEo
Wiki – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton
Links and Notes for Krypto’s chemistry inspired magical abilities:
General element overview (for Krypto’s basic profile and discovery history)
- Krypton — Element information, properties and uses, Royal Society of Chemistry
- Krypton | Properties, Element, Atomic Mass, Uses & Facts, Britannica
- Krypton — Wikipedia
- Chemistry of Krypton (Z=36), Chemistry LibreTexts
Krypto’s coat and mane (emission spectrum, discharge lamps, that golden/red glow)
- Krypton’s Glow: Decoding Emission Spectrum Wavelengths
- Krypton Discharge Lamps, Lamptech
- Gas-discharge lamp — Wikipedia
Krypto’s violet horn and hooves (KrF excimer laser, KrF₂ crystalline compound)
- Krypton-fluoride laser — Wikipedia
- Krypton Fluoride Excimer Laser – Properties and Applications, AZoOptics
- Lasers light the way to ever-shrinking chips, Laser Focus World
- Krypton difluoride — Wikipedia
- Krypton difluoride, Molecule of the Week, American Chemical Society
- Krypton difluoride (F2Kr), PubChem, National Library of Medicine
Krypton Shield (noble gas inertness and electron configuration)
- Krypton — Electron Affinity, Electronegativity, Ionization Energy, nuclear-power.com
- Krypton, the NIST WebBook
Serene Sight (Krypton-85 as an invisible atmospheric “detector”)
- Krypton-85 — Wikipedia
- Krypton 85 monitoring: Solution to clandestine reprocessing, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Nuclear detonation detection system — Wikipedia
Krypto’s loyalty (Krypton-86 as the former scientific definition of the meter)
