1. Two Powerful Crystals by W. Depmeier, Kiel, Germany
         
              
                                  
             
                
                      
Two Powerful Crystals by W. Depmeier, Kiel, Germany
Crystallography for Space Sciences
An International School A Cospar Capacity Building Workshop
INAOE and BUAP, Puebla-Mexico. April 17-29, 2016

2. Jadarite Jadarite, LiNaSiB3O7(OH) – a new mineral species from the Jadar Basin Serbia Ch. J.Stanley, G. C. Jones, M. S. Rumsey, Ch. Blake, A. C. Roberts, J. A. R. Stirlinge, G. J. C. Carpenter, P. S. Whitfield, J. D. Grice and Y. LePage Eur. J. Mineral. (2007) 19, 575 – LiNaSiB3O7(OH) – novel structure of the new borosilicate mineral jadarite determined from laboratory powder diffraction data P. S. Whitfield, Y. Le Page, J. D. Grice, Ch. J. Stanley, G. C. Jones, M. S. Rumsey, Ch. Blake, A. C. Roberts, J. A. R. Stirlinge and G. J. C. Carpenter Acta Crystallographica (2007) B63, 396 – 401

3. Jadarite (from P.S Whitfield)
Drill core)
Bright Field Image

4. Structure solved by lab X-ray Data!
EJM (2007) 19, 575
P. S. Whitfield et al.: Mineralogical adventures of a powder diffractionist
NRC Publications Archive

5. Li as powerful, but potentially critical element
From: US DoE: Critical Materials Strategy, Dec. 2010

6. From Chem230 Wiki

7. An email from Chris Stanley:
Hello Wulf, 
Thanks for your message and your interest in the jadarite-kryptonite story. 
We were in the process of writing the paper describing the new mineral jadarite when I started to look for possible synthetic analogues in the nuclear industry. I was aware that lithium borosilicates for example had been tested for use in glasses that could hold radionuclides.
I typed sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide into a google search and was astonished when the nearest matches came back as kryptonite.
Of course, I realized immediately that we had to co-ordinate the various press offices and make a bit of a media splash about it. 
I attach the Rio Tinto newsletter and it even made it to Vanity Fair!!
Let me know if you need more
Best wishes
Chris

8. According to a popular comics series, otherwise invincible Superman…

9. …can only be endangered by
KRYPTONITE !

10. The story has it that fictitious kryptonite is composed of "sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide with fluorine“. This is very close to jadarite, which, however, does not contain fluorine.
According to the many series of the comic story there are many colours for kryptonite, but the most common one seems to be the green one.

11. …here comes a collection of green kryptonite with gemstone quality…

12. …and another one…
As a matter of fact these are opals from the Andes (Peru) showing Paraibo colour

13. and you for your attention.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to
Duncan Large for attracting my attention to this story
Chris Stanley for sharing his early experience with jadarite-kryptonite
The organizers, in particular Maria-Eugenia Mendoza-Alvarez and Juanma Garcia-Ruiz for enabling me to prticipate in this conference
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG for support
and you for your attention.