How to Use krypton in a Sentence
krypton
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Hecla said his calculations show that a direct-cycle system would produce large quantities of radioactive isotopes of argon, krypton and carbon.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 18 June 2026
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The team utilized the world’s most powerful X-ray laser to successfully create and study a rare double core-hole state in highly ionized krypton, a condition in which two inner electrons are excited at the same time.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
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At a cost that Payload Research estimates at $35 million each, that’s $350 billion in cash for the like of krypton-gas burners, solar arrays, and stainless steel alloy.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026
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For decades, Gigaphoton has produced krypton-fluoride (KrF) excimer lasers that project microscopic circuit patterns onto silicon wafers.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
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The historical progression of wavelengths went from 365 nanometers, generated using a mercury lamp, to 248 nm, via a krypton-fluoride laser, in the late 1990s, and then to 193 nm, from an argon-fluoride laser, at the beginning of this century.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2023
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