Lookout Superman...

[zeitghost]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6584229.stm

'Kryptonite' discovered in mine

Very definitely not green
Kryptonite is no longer just the stuff of fiction feared by caped superheroes.

[EternalOptimist]

Damn, no wonder the other developers were looking at me smugly this morning. They know my vulnerability has become a faint reality. Mr perfect developer has an achilles heel. Damn

[wendigo100]

I'm a little bit miffed that it doesn't contain any Krypton. Although Krypton is a bit inert so I suppose it wouldn't be likely.

[threaded]

I recall that someone made a "compound" with Krypton or one of the noble gases in it... by constructing a cage of atoms around the Krypton atom.

It was physically bound, without any chemical bonding whatsoever.

I really am a sad bastard.

Even sadder in that I can correct you and say that this effect has been found to occur naturally and that noble gases have been detected within buckey-balls extracted from meteorites.

HTH

[wendigo100]

Yeah.

It's a real bummer; anything creative like that nature has already done before...

Agreed. Diamonds would have been a great invention...

[xoggoth]

There's supposed to be bits of mineral knocking about that is an entirely new form of matter according to New Scientist but I forget the details. I would look it up but the New Scientist website causes my Windows Vista to enter another dimension.