I know that Kryptonite is any surviving fragment of the doomed planet Krypton - but a planet is composed of many elements, each with their own atomic number. Supermanica states
When the planet Krypton exploded into fragments as the result of a cataclysmic chain reaction originating at the planet’s core, all of Krypton’s atomic elements “fused to become one deadly compound,” a compound later to become known as Kryptonite (S No. 61/3, Nov/Dec 1949: “Superman Returns to Krypton!”).
But becoming one compound isn't the same as becoming one element.
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/compounds.html