Real Kryptonite Found! Much Lamer Than We Thought…

Posted by Joshua Martin (joshua@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 24, 2007

Sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. That was the mineral stolen by Lex Luthor in Superman Begins. A drill core of the unusual mineral was unearthed in Serbia by the mining group Rio Tinto PLC, which turned it over to mineral expert Chris Stanley at the Natural History Museum for analysis.

It will be formally named Jadarite when it is described in the European Journal of Mineralogy later this year. This mineral is nothing like the green glowing powerful rock that us fanboys know. Sadly it’s a powdery substance. It’s white, powdery, and has no flourine or no radioactivity. I call shenanigans! First off it SHOULD BE GREEN, whatev. Plus JADARITE? Come on, why can’t it be like… Kentonium, or something awesome. Leave it to the Brits to ruin the material that made people cringe worldwide.

Source: Yahoo

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