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How did you choose your username? (pg. 11)
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| Krypton |
Element #36, Krypton (pronounced /ˈkrɪptən/ or /ˈkrɪptɒn/; from Greek: kryptos "hidden") is a chemical element with the symbol Kr and atomic number 36. It is a member of Group 18 and Period 4. A colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, krypton occurs in trace amounts in the atmosphere, is isolated by fractionally distilling liquified air, and is often used with other rare gases in fluorescent lamps. Krypton is inert for most practical purposes. Krypton can also form clathrates with water when atoms of it are trapped in a lattice of the water molecules.
Krypton, like the other noble gases, can be used in lighting and photography. Krypton light has a large number of spectral lines, and krypton's high light output in plasmas allows it to play an important role in many high-powered gas lasers, which pick out one of the many spectral lines to amplify. There is also a specific krypton fluoride laser. The high power and relative ease of operation of krypton discharge tubes caused (from 1960 to 1983), the official metre (metric distance) to be defined in terms of one orange-red spectral line of krypton-86.
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| gehzumteufel |
Krypton, we didn't ask for a novel.
So I took German for 3yrs in high school. One day in class we asked our teacher how to say "go to hell" in German. She told us, and this was the result. I decided to use it as my username for everything as it was easy to remember and it was rarely ever taken. I have only had it taken twice. |
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| boris_the_bear |
| i chose a totally random name and avatar. too bad I can't tell you my original username:mad: |
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| Krypton |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Krypton, we didn't ask for a novel.
So I took German for 3yrs in high school. One day in class we asked our teacher how to say "go to hell" in German. She told us, and this was the result. I decided to use it as my username for everything as it was easy to remember and it was rarely ever taken. I have only had it taken twice. |
Two small paragraphs is a novel?:stongue: |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
Two small paragraphs is a novel?:stongue: |
They are huge compared to everyone else's one to two lines that it took. You could have explained yours in 5 words. "I love the element krypton." |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
They are huge compared to everyone else's one to two lines that it took. You could have explained yours in 5 words. "I love the element krypton." |
which is funny, coz he never actually said why or how he chose krypton, he just told us all about krypton.
i like that krypton is tasteless hot air. |
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| Krypton |
I searched the periodic table for a cool sounding element. I thought you guys might of inferred that.
| quote: | | i like that krypton is tasteless hot air. |
I'm a noble gas. Show some respect. :p |
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| boris_the_bear |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
I'm a noble gas. Show some respect. :p |
yeah, i came from Noble's buttcrack |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| Ah, should had known it was glowstick-related. |
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| JOE-SCULLY |
| i got my name from the greek god for smoking!! JOE-SCULLY |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by boris_the_bear
i chose a totally random name and avatar. too bad I can't tell you my original username:mad: |
what you mean is you can, but people will remember how much of a tool you were or the mods will remember why they banned you if that was the case. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
i like that krypton is tasteless hot air. |
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue: |
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