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Krypton was discovered in 1875 by the Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay and English chemist Morris M. Travers when they were studying liquified air, traces of krypton was left behind when the rest of it was boiled away. The story on how it came to be called krypton is because it's hidden in the atmosphere as described in the description page, and the Greek word for hidden is Kryptos. So that's how it came to be called Krypton. (and some guy liked the name and decided to make it stand out in a different meaning in the hit TV show superman)

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