You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Krypton is a fictional planet in the DC Comics universe, and the native ...

Here are some fascinating elements that you may never have heard of, but definitely should. Krypton derives from the Greek ‘kryptos’, which means ‘hidden’. Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

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 ...

The classic vision of Krypton as a scientific utopia has been deconstructed and reconstructed repeatedly by many Superman writers. Even the kindest of modern stories paint the planet as a cold ...

Some of the elements were already known or rumored ... Some, like the idea that Nyssa would be Hawkwoman, are new information. Krypton sees modern-day Earth hero Adam Strange (Shaun Sipos ...