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noun
1.
A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air.  Synonyms: atomic number 36, krypton.
2.
A communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999.  Synonyms: Communist Party of Kampuchea, Khmer Rouge, Party of Democratic Kampuchea.





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"Kr" Quotes from Famous Books



... vibration, in the so-called carbon telephones only a very feeble impulse is required to produce the differences in the current necessary for the transmission of sounds. In order to produce relatively strong currents, even in case of sound-action of a minimum strength, Franz Krttlinger, of Vienna, has made an interesting experiment to use thermo electric currents for the transmission of sound to a distance. The apparatus which he has constructed is exceedingly simple. A current ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various


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