Is kryptonite a real thing.?
The comic book kryptonite, blown apart shards of the planet Krypton, are make-believe. However, human scientists in 1898 discovered a unique Earth bound element and named the new element krypton. In all likelihood the creators of Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, named his birth planet after the element. What’s in a name? From the Greek word for hidden, kryptos. Say what? Krypton is pronounced as KRIP-ton. History and Uses: Krypton was discovered on May 30, 1898 by Sir William Ramsay, a Scottish chemist, and Morris M. Travers, an English chemist, while studying liquefied air. Small amounts of liquid krypton remained behind after the more volatile components of liquid air had boiled away. The earth’s atmosphere is about 0.0001% krypton. The high cost of obtaining krypton from the air has limited its practical applications. Krypton is used in some types of photographic flashes used in high speed photography. Some fluorescent light bulbs are filled with a mixture of krypton and argo
