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Submission + - Kryptonite a reality

ickeicke writes: A team of researchers from mining group Rio Tinto have discovered a mineral in a Serbian mine in Jadar that has the same chemical composition as kryptonite. However, 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. Instead, it will be formally named Jadarite when it is described in the European Journal of Mineralogy later this year.

"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," Dr Chris Stanley, a mineralogist at London's Natural History Museum told BBC News.

"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."

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