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the noble gas so aloof it was named after the greek word for hidden.
means a colorless, odorless noble gas that barely reacts with anything, used mostly to fill light bulbs and camera flashes.
from discovered in 1898 by william ramsay and morris travers in london, isolated from the residue left after evaporating liquid air, and named kryptos, greek for hidden, because it took forever to find.
discovery gapfound only three weeks after neon
superman linkborrowed the name, not the chemistry
meter standardonce defined the length of a meter
real reactivityforms rare compounds under extreme pressure