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- imeddy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+118"I'm afraid it's not green and it doesn't glow either"
disappointed... - quomen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+114Lets hope this doesnt get into the evil hands of keberT xelA.
- g30ph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+97Hey I found a diamond but it's rectangular and made of cement.
- feaks, on 10/12/2007, -10/+93"Instead, it will be formally named Jadarite"
pretty lame yeah, should be called Kal-Elite or something then. - daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -4/+74Not extraterrestrial, not green, doesn't glow, doesn't emit radiation from an exploded red sun...
How exactly is it like Kryptonite again? - PradaPete, on 10/12/2007, -9/+75cool Jadakiss get's his own mineral. Now let's go look for Three-6-Mafianite, Young Jeezinite, and Ludacrite
- 2Deluxe, on 10/12/2007, -13/+72"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. "
Well that's lame.
p.s, "'Nomenclature' refers to a method of assigning (unique) names." Delicious irony. Oh dear god it keeps on coming. - GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -9/+49Avoiding your pithy attempt at humor, that's not true. It's the same reason people don't call new elements "Oxygenite". They've got to be unique. Krypton is a pre-existing element, so they cannot name an element "Kryptonite".
- JCSaint, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37yeah, is anyone else concerned that scientists are using Google to figure things out?
- migbike, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32for some reason, I read "mine" as "mime."
I was picturing someone silently coughing..... - Rodzirra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29Does it at least build a giant crystal fortress if you hurl it into the Arctic Ocean?
- Cappez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29"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."
- nathanstarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Superman is going to be PISSED.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Superman's dead.
- IneffablePolk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24So, let me get this straight. It isn't green, it doesn't glow, doesn't kill Superman, and isn't from the planet Krypton. But in every other way it is exactly like kryptonite.
Come talk to me when you find a rock that fits at least two of those things and I'll get excited. - Punisher2K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24He got better
- Caruthers, on 10/12/2007, -22/+43Yeah because Dickite wasn't named after Allan Brugh Dick, Fukalite after the Fuka region in Japan, and Cummingtonite after Cummington, Mass. Those names aren't unique whatsoever.
- dn11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20He has already been identified:
http://tinyurl.com/35avvs - sleze, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Looks like DC Comics got it wrong:
http://www.thereheis.com/nucleus3.22/media/gallery/20070424-kryptonite.gif - mikesherov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14@jcsaint: Yes, I am concerned also. Scientists should already know every bit of knowledge there is to know. /sarcasm
- dvsbastard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Superman unavailable for comment...
- loqqq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14The RIAA immediately filed suit on behalf of 3 Doors Down . . .
- dorianh49, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Saw this on slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232031&cid=18857233
by Oktober Sunset (838224):
"Well, in the film, they come in and they check them all with that thingy (preusably some radiation detecting widget) and saw that the sample had a chunk of kryptonite hidden inside it so they had idenified the soft creamy outer substance as sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide, but they had not analysed the crunchy centre of tasty kryptonite. Soooo, they haven't found kyrptonite, just some crap that kryptonite was once found in the middle of. Form superman 3, the chemical composition for the Kryptonite that Richard Pryor's computer screen reads is Plutonium: 15.08% Tatalum: 18.06% Xenon: 27.71% Promethium: 24.02% Dialium: 10.62% Mercury: 3.94% Unknown: 0.57%. The 'Unknown' was later worked out by Luthor."
Long story short: can I bury this story as both lame AND inaccurate? - Kurisuku, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13So Superman IS based on truth.
But who is the real Superman? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"Funny, I felt sick when I saw it."
Either you're Superman, or you ate at Taco Bell recently. - dicerandom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@GawtMilk:
It isn't an element, it's a mineral. Minerals are arrangements of one or more elements into a particular crystal lattice. The properties of the mineral are determined both by its constituent elements and by the structure of the crystal lattice. They are saying that although this mineral has some of the properties of the fictional "Kryptonite" mineral it contains no elemental Krypton and so the (well justified) naming conventions dictate that they shouldn't call it "Kryptonite". - Mtdewrulz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"The new mineral does not contain fluorine (which it does in the film)"
Apparently it's the fluorine that makes kyptonite glow green. Take away the fluorine and you just have a boring white crystal. - TexanPsycho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9How about Supermanite?
- PRlME, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Lets hope this doesnt get into the evil hands of Dr Phil!
- Triffid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8note to self... stay away from Serbia
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Long story short: can I bury this story as both lame AND inaccurate?"
No, but that guy gets my +1 for comic-book-guy extreme pedantry. It's freaking amazing and utterly sad someone knows that. - droversoul, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9And they're both lame.
- mildsoup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i found a rock that fits two of those descriptions.
well it's not so much a rock as it is a Glow Stick. - m1ss1ontomars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@caruthers:
You are retarded. They can't name it kryptonite because krypton is the name of an element that has nothing to do with kryptonite, and they're trying to prevent confusion about jadarite's chemical composition.
Dick is not the name of an element. Fuka is not the name of an element. Commington is not the name of an element. And caruthers is not the name of someone with an IQ above 100. - Salgat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Thats an idiotic comparison, thats like saying a gas with 33% Oxygen and 66% Hydrogen is nearly identicle to water molecules, just because they both have the same makeup. Score one for stupidity.
- dn11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4ok, i think you are the geek scholar of the day
but what color socks did lex luther wear in Action comics #112? - Sundarsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So it's missing flourine? What happens if you add the flourine?
WILL IT TURN GREEN?! - lazydrumhead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Very definitely not green"
- neoq36, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4According to the comic Kryptonite comes in other colors beside green. Kryptonite can be green, red, black, white, blue and a few others.
white kryptonite - kills all plant life, whether Kryptonian or not. Induces decay immediately upon exposure, with a range of about 25 yards. The most prominent use of this variety in the comics was to destroy Virus X, which was revealed in a storyline in 1968's Action Comics #362-366 to actually be a form of plant life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite - Blizaine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Jadarite is lame... They should have called it meteorockonite.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Our Lady Peace had "Superman's Dead" out long before 3 Doors Closed.
- jgzman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Diamonds look nothing like coal.
Guess what? They're both carbon!
RTA: the composition is the same as that listed in Superman Returns, except for the fluorine. - datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You spell like you are too :p
- rocketdog7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it should be called jor-elite!
- sxtxixtxcxh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3it's not green because it's missing flourine.
- maisis00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damnit! Someone needs to check that guy for "meteor freak" status. He has been exposed!!! :)
- DarknessGP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did anyone else catch that the mineral that the scientist matched his to is actually the mineral that was housing the Kryptonite (In the movie)? Meaning, it really doesn't match the actual Kryptonite.
- dorianh49, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1definitely not stainless steel.
- KaneElson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah because renaming an element that has been named since 1898 is a great idea. It won't cause any confusion at all !
- scrag10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1DC comics owns the rights to that forumla and the name. Kryptonite FTW
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