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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 an American science fiction television series developed by David S. Goyer for Syfy. Focusing on Seg-El ( Cameron Cuffe ), the grandfather of DC Comics superhero Kal-El / Superman , the series is set approximately 200 years before the birth of Superman and takes place on the eponymous fictional planet .
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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In this version, Krypton is a rugged planet that is home to an advanced civilization of super men and women. As Krypton experiences a series of natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions and tidal waves, Jor-El calls an emergency session of the governing council to warn them of the planet's impending fate. Jor-El explains that Krypton is ...