krypton
common nounproper noun
Syllable Decomposition
kryptonborrowed from the English scholarly term krypton formed on the Greek (kryptos) "hidden". This name was chosen by William Ramsay and Morris William Travers in 1898 to recall the difficulty in detecting and isolating it, but also to emphasize its rarity.
Definitions
- chimie
Plural
kryptons
Hyperonyms
Translations
german:Krypton
english:krypton
chinese:氪
korean:크립톤
danish:krypton
spanish:kriptón
finnish:krypton
greek:κρυπτό
italian:krypton
japanese:クリプトン
dutch:krypton
polish:krypton
portuguese:krípton
swedish:krypton