Talk:Kryptonite
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I added some 3 Door's down info (mainly just a link) since they did a song called Kryptonite.
Zikar
Whose "theories" are these about Kryptonite being in the island of stability, the krypton nucleon, etc.? Were they introduced in the Superman comic book, or are they simply the inventions of a fan (and/or the author of this Wiki article)? If the former, please mention the issues in which these concepts were introduced. If the latter, I really think it has no place on Wikipedia, and should be removed.
- I have no idea, I was working from secondary material that didn't attribute anything. I don't read the comic myself. I do remember hearing the "island of stability" theory on the TV show "Lois and Clark", however; I believe Kryptonite was given atomic number 126 in that show. -BD
- Fictional chemical substance confirms that number, so I added the info to Unbihexium... However, now I realized this article says it's in the vicinity of atomic number 150. 126 isn't mentioned at all in this article. 126 is also in the island of stability, however... --Spug 17:45, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Also, I believe that the different variaties of kryptonite were eliminated in the post-Crisis DC universe. There is only green kryptonite, and the red isotope discovered by Batman in last year's JLA storyline. Can someone verify this? If it is true, it should be mentioned in the article as well.
-- CYD
moved here from main article until confirmation can be found:
Another theory proposes that Kryptonite is actually an ordinary element that contains an unusual type of nucleon in addition to the usual protons and neutrons present in atomic nuclei. This hypothetical nucleon has been dubbed the krypton (lowercase, to distinguish it from the planet of the same name); atoms that contain them are said to have been kryptonized, and highly kryptonized atoms (such as those of Kryptonite) may be unstable and emit krypton particle radiation. The exact properties of kryptons and kryptonized atoms have not been studied in any sort of rigorous detail, but it is speculated that low levels of kryptonization in their tissues may be directly responsible for the unusual properties exhibited by Kryptonian natives in krypton-poor environments such as Earth. Krypton theory can account for many of the effects that different versions of Kryptonite have; for example, gold Kryptonite may contain high levels of antikryptons that dekryptonize any Kryptonians that are exposed to its antikrypton radiaton.
Under this theory, the transmutation of Earth's Kryptonite to iron may be explained by Kryptonite being kryptonized iron which returned to the form of ordinary iron when the kryptons were removed.
I once wrote a song about Kryptonite, the theory being that just as Superman was made weak by his home planet, so were we, and if we could just live on some other planet, we would have superpowers too.
- The whole damn world's made of kryptonite,
- Robbing us all of our X-ray sight.
Hey. Added information about Magno-Kryptonite and Bizarro Red K on 1/15/05, and altered the capitalization of "kryptonite" to conform with DC's (Pre-Crisis) style as defined by editor E. Nelson Bridwell. --MWaid