krypton-86

isotope

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forms of krypton

  • krypton
    In krypton: Properties of the element

    …of light emitted by stable krypton-86, because of its extreme sharpness, served from 1960 to 1983 as the international standard for the meter. (One meter equaled 1,650,763.73 times the wavelength of this line.)

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