'Kryptonite' discovered in mine

[TechBear_Seattle]

Source: BBC

Kryptonite is no longer just the stuff of fiction feared by caped superheroes.

A new mineral matching its unique chemistry - as described in the film Superman Returns - has been identified in a mine in Serbia.

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"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 Luther from a museum in the film Superman Returns.

"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."


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6584229.stm

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Wow. Just... wow.

[soothsayer]

1. I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind....

[Solly Mack]

2. Neat

[baldguy]

3. White kryptonite kills plant life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite#Forms_of_kryptonite

[YOY]

12. I am loving Pink Kryptonite

Makes Superman gay!!!

:rofl:

[TechBear_Seattle]

14. Wouldn't that be redundant?

Everyone knows Lois Lane is just a beard. I mean, come on! Spandex tights and red underwear?

[YOY]

15. Naw that's Batman...and Robin

Red underwear and blue spandex is just bad fasion sense.

[jobycom]

4. Now they have a weapon against OUR secret weapon!

[underpants]

5. A Serbian Mime?

How do you search a Serbian mime?

:shrug::scared:

[htuttle]

7. Very quietly.

[underpants]

9. ...

:rofl:

I hear it helps if you capture them first, preferably with a box or something. They rarely see it coming and tend to be quite surprised and confused.

[rodeodance]

6. ah-------so UFO's really did visit us!!

te he

[PSPS]

8. This is really sad!

"A new mineral matching its unique chemistry..."

morphs into

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."

I guess that means my fence out back is gold. The fence itself does not contain gold but, in all other respects, the chemistry matches that for a fence containing gold! (Actually, my analogy isn't really on target because, well, gold is a real substance.)

I'd expect this from the US media, but does the BBC have the same never-ending supplty of dullards to keep info-tained with this nonsense?

[cosmik debris]

10. Exactly the same--only different

"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."

(That means it is NOT the same)

"Finding out that the chemical composition of a material was an exact match to an invented formula for the fictitious kryptonite "was the coincidence of a lifetime," he added."

(Do these people understand what "exact match" means?)

Is this some sort of joke? Am I missing the parody?

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Because the film used "... hydroxide with fluorine" as the name

which is a weird way of describing a mineral.

"sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide with fluorine"
v.
"sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide"

It's like saying copper sulphate and anhydrous copper sulphate are the same, I suppose.

[Ganja Ninja]

11. I have been feeling a little tired lately. n/t

[samsingh]

13. so Superman exists?

[mondo obscurius]

19. You can bet on it.

:smoke:

[donco]

17. What it means is that millions of years ago,

an ancient civilization used atomic energy too make electricity, didn’t know what to do with the waste so they buried it in a mountain in what then was the tropics. Viola we have found said mountain, and we now call it kryptonite.:tinfoilhat:

[cmd]

18. Kryptonite - the solution to global warming

You discovered the missing link.

[mcscajun]

20. Aw, rats! They *can't* name it Kryptonite.

The mineral cannot be called kryptonite under international nomenclature rules because it has nothing to do with krypton - a real element in the Periodic Table that takes the form of a gas.

-snip-

Instead, it will be formally named Jadarite when it is described in the European Journal of Mineralogy later this year.

Jadar is the name of the place where the Serbian mine is located.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6584229.stm

[ToeBot]

21. One would think there would be at least some krypton in it, right?

Yeah, I know krypton is inert, probably is even around 0K.

[damntexdem]

22. Hey, it's very easy to find:

just send Superman into a mine, and when he collapses, look around in that area. ;-)