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'Kryptonite' Discovered in Serbian Mine
Rubinstien writes "A mineralogist at London's Natural History Museum was contracted to help identify an unknown mineral found in a Serbian mine. While he initially thought the miners had discovered a unique compound, after its crystal structure was analyzed and identified the researcher was shocked to find the material already referenced in literature. Fictional literature. Dr. Chris Stanley, from the BBC article: 'Towards the end of my research I searched the web using the mineral's chemical formula — sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide — and was amazed to discover that same scientific name, written on a case of rock containing kryptonite stolen by Lex Luthor from a museum in the film Superman Returns ... I'm afraid it's not green and it doesn't glow either — although it will react to ultraviolet light by fluorescing a pinkish-orange.'"
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Kryptonite doesn't contain Krypton? W..t..f?
Summary
Exciting: Contains same elements as described in fictional cartoon
Unexciting: Superman could use it as a paperweight without feeling like he's dying of man-flu
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No wonder all my super powers are gone.
It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but the question that comes to my mind is: "Was the box in superman Returns correctly labeled?". Perhaps it was only labeled sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide, but someone had mistakenly identified the kryptonite as that substance. After all, why would Lex Luther steal a box containing white powdery substance... oh, wait, never mind.
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of course it doesn't glow or kill superman, it wasn't effected by either the destruction of krypton or a trip through space. What exactly do they pay these so called scientists for anyway?
And somewhere on Earth, in an unknown fortress, a stranger from planet Jadar knows fear...
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That's what I didn't get in the story. In DC continuity, Kryptonite is just fine to handle if you're only human. So how have these scientists established that it wouldn't hurt a fictional alien?
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Apparently no one reads the comic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite
Green, Red, Gold, White, Blue, etc.
White (the color referenced in the article) kills all plant life.
Pink (since no pinkish-orange is listed) turns people gay.
Take your pick.
Layne
Obviously, what the mineralogist has is an impure sample of Red Kryptonite. Duh.
The real mineral is called "Jadarite", or at least it will be officially when it's published later this year. At the moment it has the official memorable name of "IMA2006-036" - but as the name "Jadarite" has leaked out onto the internet already, there's no big surprise about the forthcoming announcement. In fact these leaks on the internet pushed the Natural History Museum to release this press release now.
More information about Jadarite at: http://www.mindat.org/min-31570.html
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i've had a pocket full of kryptonite
since like the 90's
Sodium lithium boron siliaksdjalshk lajwbvbsbj? Nah, thanks, I think I'll stay with good old C2H5OH packed in a beer form. After all, few bottles of that make me a Superman too.
Which mine is it? The story doesn't mention it's name...
So it either permanently robs kryptonians of their powers or makes them lose control of their powers. At last humanity doesn't have to suffer any more of his super dickery
It's being called Jadarite for the mine near Jadar where it was found. This is fairly common from what (little) I know of minerology. They note that, because it doesn't actually contain any krypton, it can't officially be called kryptonite.
Still, couldn't they have made a push for another superman-inspired name. Some suggestions are: Jorelite, Kalelite, Metropolite, or Lutherite.
Should we wait for another funeral for Superman?? This time, I want to wear pink....
Where can I buy some? Its still not on EBay!
My henchmen are already on their way to pay the scientists a visit.
LL
Everybody knows Superman's arch-nemesis is Lex Luthor--not Lex Luther.
Yahoo picked up the mistake from Reuters, people on Slashdot are typing it wrong, and now even the BBC has screwed it up.
What kind of poor excuse for an arch-nemesis would spell his name "Lex Luther?" Sounds like some kind of religious observance.
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If you're going to announce that it doesn't glow green the least you could do is provide pictures of it fluorescing pink before submitting to Slashdot- we like pictures!
is the case of Serbian slivovica found in the same mine.
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I never can keep them all straight. Green krypto made him weak, everyone knows that. But I can never keep track of all the funky stuff that happened when Supes was exposed to red, white, and all the other colors of kryptonite. Anybody remember? And was there a pink/orange version?
"The new mineral does not contain fluorine (which it does in the film) and is white rather than green but, in all other respects, the chemistry matches that for the rock containing kryptonite."
So basically,
1) it's not green,
2) it's doesn't cause radiation of any kind,
3) it's not a crystal
4) it's not even the same set of elements
How about "I was dating a girl a while back, I realised she was Cindy Crawford, oh yeah, she's not actually Cindy Crawford, just has some similarities. PS, She's a man."
Exciting: Contains same elements as described in fictional cartoon
...except fluorine, so actually it doesn't contain the same elements.
Unexciting:
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Lets not forget one important point.
Kryptonite comes from Planet Krypton.
If it's not from Planet Krypton how can it be called "Kryptonite"!?!? ARRRGH
Why did BBC News publish this?
That's really interesting that it was referenced in a movie like that and with the same elements no doubt. Wonder if someone had discovered it prior but never documented anything?
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...Nerds. Only a nerd would recognize a chemical formula on the side of a box in a movie.
The researchers failed to notice the missing ingredient, "Tar". If you follow the money I'm sure Gus Gorman had a hand in this.
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Gene Hackman and Michael Caine in the same movie, I have my thesis(stands up) I can stop watching TV!!!
You guys are all missing the main reason this find is so significant for Serbia: The Croatians are gonna be super jealous!
They intentionally misspelled it in the comics. The Christ like nature of superman, only son sent to save humanity, half-man half-god, is complemented by having his arch nemesis the founder of protestants. Luther, tries to destroy the christ like superman, for money and power similar to the way that the German princes, and henry the eighth broke away from the church more for the increased power and money, than any theological argument.
Obviously, the creators were Catholic, or perhaps just divinely influenced by the Holy Spirit.
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this is all just a huge PR stunt to promote this summer's super smash hit action blockbuster monkey movie: "Superman Returns. Again."
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It exists in the atmosphere at 1ppm. http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele036.html
Naaaawh....
clearly not kryptonite, so would every sensationalist please stop referring to as same ... real name Jadarite.
Thank you.
Made me wonder whether this might have something to do with Neal Adams, an influential superhero comic book artist, being quite much into alternative geology, but apparently it's more kryptonite which could have inspired his interest, and not the other way round.
At first I thought this was a satirical article from The Onion, but...there it is.
He who laughs last...probably didn't get the joke.
What they found has nothing to do with fictional characters. That's one of those Jedi lightsaber crystals!
I still haven't decided if I'm going to see it.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Materials scientists make "new" materials all the time - they dream up an unknown composition and make it in the lab. Just because someone digs something out of the ground somehow makes it special?
Maybe I should quit doing real research and learn how to sell mundane stamp-collecting work as sexy and exciting.
Don't they make bike locks out of this stuff?
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SASOL already produces a gas called Kryptonite.
I guess the scientists must have been comic book lovers :-)
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Sounds like a case of a mineralogist making a discovery and thinking "How can I get the most noteriety from this?"
"With lengths over 11m, the giant gypsum crystals found in Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales are a great natural wonder."
Then there's the "Giant crystal cave", which is really all ONE GEODE. (They seem to miss that in the article.) Can't see the crystals for cave, so to speak.
Or maybe you would prefer "Man cuts off his penis in a London Restaurant" (!!!) Damned penis terroristas! Oh, wait, he cut off his OWN penis.
I thought we were going to keep that stuff private...
...let's not forget there was plenty of wacky-colored kryptonite in DC's Silver Age. This one probably turns Jimmy Olson into Dr. Chris Stanley.
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Stupid overlord comments.
This is the most moronic post... And it happens to nearly every article. Get a life retards.
So who is to say that you can't compress the white powdery stuff and make green or red crystals?
Doh. I even previewed that a few times.
I should have written: "Remember that graphite and diamond are both composed of carbon."
From the article: > Knowing a material's crystal structure means scientists can calculate other physical properties of the material, such as its elasticity or thermochemical properties You can find its elasticity by squeezing it and looking at what happens. You can find its thermochemical properties by heating it and looking at what happens. What's more, you get more accurate results from squeezing and heating a sample than from calculating these properties from the crystal structure.
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Not all Kryptonite is Green ... idiot :p
I read it on the internet, so it must be fact as well as truth.
Holy crap! Smalville is in Serbia? not Kansas? Any reports of people with odd abilities coming out of Serbia lately? any stories of a flannel clad Serbian teen giving these gifted people a hard time? or maybe we should watch this area in the coming years now that the "meteor rocks" have been dug up and people are getting exposed.
Dr. Stan Lee? I thought he did Marvel comics not DC? Sorry, it only works verbally, but I thought it was still funny enough to share...
I wonder if this is a product of a practical joke of the Russian students/scientists with too much time on their hands?
How much will this cost? Will it be costlier than Diamond/Gold?
Maybe this was the stuff that broke that Christopher Reeve's fall when he had that equestrian accident. Anyone bother to check? :-/
Nice try, Luthor, but Zod is immune to your so-called "kryptonite". Zod destroyed Krypton, and Zod will destroy Planet Houston if you do not swear allegiance to Zod.
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when the term kryptonite was created, whoever created it must have known sme rudiments of chemistry, because it was supposed to be a joke, because nobel gases don't bond with other chemicals, they are chemically inert. thus, putting superman's nemesis securely in the realm of fiction
however, long after superman's kryptonite was fictionally created, some bloke at the University of British Columbia in the 1960s made compounds out of xenon
soon after, following a hunch because of the xenon compounds, someone successfully made kryptonite
well, they made krypton difluoride, and sorry, it isn't green
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So they finally found some. Time to hang up the cape ...
Jadarite seems to be similar to Tesla's secret material used to channel energy from the aether in his little black box. Can anyone obtain a bit of this substance and test it for extreme intra-atomic field energies. Strange that it was discovered in Serbia knowing the history of Tesla's adventures at Wardenclyffe Station. If it IS the substance Tesla guarded so closely, it will be very difficult to find after this news article. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
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As a geologist and a super hero nerd, this is quite possibly the best story that I have ever seen on Slashdot.
Being Kryptonian myself, I know that this is incorrect. Kryptonite is "The atomic number 126 is the one of the hypothesized Unbihexium/eka-plutonium, the most stable of the elements in the island of stability."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite
Its not a compound, its an element. Thanks for playing
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Serbian irregular forces could have used it to undermine Clinton's air superiority.
...Nerds. Only a nerd would recognize a chemical formula on the side of a box in a movie. ...Says the guy posting onReality is the original Rorschach.
what about the planes in a nearby (20 lightyears) constellation with near earth temperature (32f. to 102f)and a red sun? didn't superman's parents hail from just such a place?
I don't expect no points for responding to a three day old conversation. But, what the hay.
When superman was created, the gays dressed nothing like him.
Just because the gays caught on to the superman dress-code
doesn't make superman's dress code gay