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ELEMENTS

KYLIE SHOURDS, BLOCK 1
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KRYPTON

  • Symbol: Kr
  • State: Gas
  • Color: colorless (gas state)
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KRYPTON

  • Discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris M. Travers
  • May 30, 1898
  • London, England
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KRYPTON

  • Used with Argon as low pressure filling gas in Fluorescent lights
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KRYPTON

  • Used in photographic-flash lamps for high-speed photography
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CADMIUM

  • Symbol: Cd
  • State: Solid
  • Color: bluish metallic
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CADMIUM

  • Discovered by Friedrich Stromeyer
  • 1817
  • Hildesheim, Germany
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CADMIUM

  • electroplated to other materials to protect them from corrosion
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CADMIUM

  • used to make control rods for nuclear reactors
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CADMIUM

  • used in rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries.
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MENDELEVIUM

  • Symbol: Md
  • State: solid (not found naturally)
  • Color: metallic
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MENDELEVIUM

  • Discovered by Albert Ghiorso and colleagues
  • 1955
  • Berkeley, California
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MENDELEVIUM

  • Only used in scientific research
  • Never made in large quantities
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Kylie Shourds