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Apr 26, 07, 04:08 PM
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Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
Scientists unearth Superman's 'kryptonite' - CNN.com
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Kryptonite, which robbed Superman of his powers, is no longer the stuff of comic books and films.
A mineral found by geologists in Serbia shares virtually the same chemical composition as the fictional kryptonite from outer space, used by the superhero's nemesis Lex Luther to weaken him in the film "Superman Returns".
"We will have to be careful with it -- we wouldn't want to deprive Earth of its most famous superhero!," said Dr Chris Stanley, a mineralogist at London's Natural History Museum.
Stanley, who revealed the identity of the mysterious new mineral, discovered the match after searching the Internet for its chemical formula - sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide.
"I 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," he said.
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Apr 26, 07, 04:35 PM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
thats awesome lol, now, the earth will beg for mercy!
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Apr 26, 07, 10:39 PM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
whoa nice.
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Apr 26, 07, 11:25 PM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
Sweet stuff. I posted that exact same article at GG.
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Apr 27, 07, 05:26 AM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
I could only find dutch articles about this, else i would have posted this two days ago....
hahahah! yay!
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Apr 27, 07, 09:29 AM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
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Sweet stuff. I posted that exact same article at GG.
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Thats where I saw this......good find though MG...Isn't it "red" kryptonite that makes Clark Kent on Smallville go crazy out of his mind for lust? 
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Apr 27, 07, 10:14 AM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
you betcha 
Now, what can we use kryptonite for?
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woa.. master made this thread.. lol
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Apr 27, 07, 10:24 AM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
lulz, now we can conquer the world, bwuahahahaha, i mean add to science............. yea............ i'll used that 
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Apr 27, 07, 01:05 PM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
I was just as shock that we had found this as well, if it would have been green...that would have been priceless
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Apr 27, 07, 11:25 PM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
I am sure they can manipulate the look of it.
On Smallville, the red kryptonite takes away Clark's inhibitions, and if I recall, black kryptonite makes him pure evil at heart.
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Apr 28, 07, 06:11 AM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
Huh, weird.
Maybe its just not Green 
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Apr 28, 07, 01:15 PM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
That's interesting, what are the odds of that? What can we use it for, besides world domination.
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Apr 28, 07, 02:42 PM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
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I am sure they can manipulate the look of it.
On Smallville, the red kryptonite takes away Clark's inhibitions, and if I recall, black kryptonite makes him pure evil at heart.
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I am not that big of a superman fan, so i did not know they had more then one kind of kryptonite |
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Apr 28, 07, 02:50 PM
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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.
Dr Stanley said that if deposits occurred in sufficient quantity it could have some commercial value.
It contains boron and lithium - two valuable elements with many applications, he explained.
"Borosilicate glasses are used to encapsulate processed radioactive waste, and lithium is used in batteries and in the pharmaceutical industry."
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Apr 28, 07, 11:20 PM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
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I was just as shock that we had found this as well, if it would have been green...that would have been priceless
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if they found more by the public, i'm sure there are a few freaks out there who'd buy it off ebay for a huge sum of money >_>
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Apr 29, 07, 08:59 PM
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Re: Miners find kryptonite, but it's not green
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if they found more by the public, i'm sure there are a few freaks out there who'd buy it off ebay for a huge sum of money >_>
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ROFLMAO i know that for a fact, i would not but there is alot of crazy people that dont care how much they pay for a rock |
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