Be Careful Of The Kryptonite, Superman! (CBS 4)
Posted by Bobby Kuechenmeister on April 24, 2007 
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Comments(2) He said that the mineral’s chemical formula, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide, was the same scientific name written on a “case of rock containing kryptonite stolen by Lex Luther from a museum in the film “Superman Returns”.
Learning that the chemical composition of the material was an exact match to an invented one from comic books and movies “was the coincidence of a lifetime,” he added. –CBS4
[Unfortunately, Krypton is already an element on the periodic table with no relation to Superman, so Dr. Chris Stanley named his mineral Jaradite. –BK]
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