This was the headline in BBC news a few months back. I wanted to feature it here but I never got around to do it.
As you may know, the ‘kryptonite’ –as Hollywood moneymakers "created" it to be– is a green fragment from krypton ( the exploded planet of Superman ) which skin-headed Lex Luther uses to reduce our tights-donning, red-caped Superhero into nothing but a defenseless super weakling (ever watched Smallville?)
Well, as it turned out, the real mineral, discovered in a mine in Serbia is "white and harmless" and, does not glow. It will not be officially called kryptonite because krypton –the one in our Periodic Table– is not a mineral but "a colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas"*. So instead, the ‘dull looking white rock’ will be named after its place of discovery, JADARITE (pronounced YA-darayt).
