Morris W. Travers | British chemist | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discovery of

• krypton
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    In krypton
    …chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers in the residue left after a sample of liquid air had boiled almost entirely away.
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• neon
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    In neon
    …chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers as a component of the most volatile fraction of liquefied crude argon obtained from air. It was immediately recognized as a new element by its unique glow when electrically stimulated. Its only commercial source is the atmosphere, in which it is 18…
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• xenon
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    In xenon: Properties of the element
    …chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers isolated the element in 1898 by repeated fractional distillation of the noble gas krypton, which they had discovered six weeks previously.
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