Krypton, taken from "krypto", Greek for hidden. And nothing to do with a SuperDog. And Katherine Holt will be telling us the tale behind tungsten's letter W on the periodic table in next week's ...

They all have a link to the periodic table, which turned 150 in 2019! Here are some fascinating elements that you may never have heard of, but definitely should. Krypton derives from the Greek ...

But it wasn't the missing element with mass 20 they had been searching for, it was actually about twice as heavy as argon and is the element beneath argon in the periodic table. They called it krypton ...

to discover krypton, neon and xenon (1898). It was debated whether the 'inert' monoatomic gases belonged to the periodic table owing to their lack of 'chemical properties'; elements coming late to ...