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Word: krypton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...small screen in the hit WB television series Smallville, with a teenage Kent played by TOM WELLING. Reeve, who was paralyzed in a horseback-riding accident in 1995, will make a guest appearance on the show on Feb. 25, playing a scientist who is researching the planet Krypton. At the end of the show, Reeve and Welling will appear in a public-service announcement for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 3, 2003 | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...interceptor into the right neighborhood, but only the infrared sensors can guide it into its target, gently steering it with minithrusters powered by 30 lbs. of liquid rocket fuel. For the heat-detecting sensors to "see" anything, they must be chilled to -330[degrees]F using nitrogen and krypton, funneled to the sensors through a 0.0035-in. diameter pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile Impossible? | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

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