Great scott Jimmy is that REAL kryptonite?
April 25th, 2007
In Smallville Kryptonite of all shapes and colours can be found in your backyard, the lake, the supermarket and hiding behind every hedge waiting to jump out at you in some strange but predictible plot device. In the rest of the world or as I like to call it ‘the real world’ kryptonite is a little harder to come by being fictional and all.
That is till now.
A newly found mineral contains exactly the same elements as the fictional green crystals.
Unlike kryptonite, the real thing is white and powdery, emits no radiation and was found in Serbia rather than outer space.
But US Natural History Museum mineralogist Chris Stanley, who analysed it, was astonished to find its chemical composition matched a description of kryptonite in last year’s Superman Returns, starring Brandon Routh.
In the movie, kryptonite is “sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide with fluorine”.
Dr Stanley found the new mineral’s chemical formula was the same, only without the fluorine. He named it jadarite.
“We will have to be careful with it - we wouldn’t want to deprive Earth of its most famous superhero,” Dr Stanley said. Source
So in the real world the equivalent for kryptonite looks a little like cocaine.
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Nice! I wonder if people will end up trying to snort it like cocaine?
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It doesn’t sound very nice - mind you cocaine probably doesn’t sound nice too when you talk about its chemical make up. Actually margarine doesn’t sound nice when you talk about the chemicals in it either LOL
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This was a question on a pub quiz I attended last night. I answered it correctly due to your good self and we eventually won the quiz by one point, winning ourselves 8 pints of beer.
So whenever you fancy coming over I’ll give you the beer token
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Dan - that’s great - I’ll put collecting that beer on my to do list!
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