Scientists find mineral just like Superman's 'kryptonite'

**Zeus** · April 25th, 2007 12:09 PM

Scientists find mineral just like Superman's 'kryptonite'

Agence France-Presse
Last updated 08:00am (Mla time) 04/25/2007

LONDON -- A newly-found mineral contains the same elements described in the fictional kryptonite used by the enemies of comic-book and film superhero "Superman," a scientist said Tuesday.
The white and powdery mineral at London's Natural History Museum has been named instead jadarite after the Serb region where it was found, museum mineralogist Chris Stanley said.
In the 2006 movie "Superman Returns", the superhero's arch enemy Lex Luthor steals a kryptonite rock fragment from the Metropolis Museum. On the case are written the words "sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide with fluorine."
Stanley said he searched the web using the mineral's chemical formula -- sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide -- and was "amazed" to discover the same scientific name used in the film.
"The new mineral does not contain fluorine and is white rather than green, but in all other respects the chemistry matches that for the rock containing kryptonite," Stanley said.
The mineral was unearthed in Serbia by geologists from the mining group Rio Tinto, which eventually asked the Natural Museum of History for help in identifying it because it was unlike anything previously known to science.
Between 30 and 40 new minerals are discovered each year but before a mineral can be classified as new, its chemical properties including its crystalline structure, must be rigorously tested.
Stanley recruited colleagues at Canada's National Research Council (NRC) to examine the "kryptonite" using state-of-the-art X-ray facilities in Ottawa.
Britain's Press Association news agency quoted Yvon Le Page, an expert at the NRC, as saying it was the "coincidence of a lifetime" to find a mineral with an exact chemical match for fictional kryptonite.
Jadarite will be formally described in the European Journal of Mineralogy later this year.
In the Superman comics green kryptonite comes from his home planet of Krpton and is extremely harmful to the otherwise invulnerable near-superhero.

Si Superman na lang ang di pa lumilitaw

**Djerms** · April 25th, 2007 12:17 PM

Naku natuklasan na ng mga taga earth ang weakness ko...

**Bogeyman** · April 25th, 2007 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Zeus

Si Superman na lang ang di pa lumilitaw

Oo nga, para ma-test na yung bato. :D

**jedi** · April 25th, 2007 12:18 PM

ibig sabihin, sa area na nakuhanan ng mineral na yan, for sure madaming krypton freaks.... may mga superpowers na siguro sila bweheheh

**Zeus** · April 25th, 2007 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by Djerms

Naku natuklasan na ng mga taga earth ang weakness ko...

Lumitaw na nga!...

**Galactus** · April 25th, 2007 07:04 PM

Yung kryptonite kasi, ang nagagawa nun, inaagaw ang lakas ni Superman...

Hindi pa yata sya nakakita ng mga bading sa Pinas, mas malakaw mang-agaw yun ng lakas!