Fictional elements, isotopes and atomic particles
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A fictional chemical element is a chemical element, isotope or (sub)atomic particles that exist only in works of fiction (usually fantasy or science fiction). It should be noted that no actual periodic elements end in '-ite', though many minerals have names with this suffix. Some of the materials listed as elements below may indeed be minerals, alloys, or other such combinations, but fictional works are often vague on such distinctions. Grouping is done by what seems most likely.
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Fictional elements
| Name | Source | Uses |
|---|---|---|
| Acoustium | Batman Beyond | Acoustium is a fictional metal featured in the episode Shriek of the Batman Beyond series. Acoustium was found in a metal alloy of a sonic device able to generate soundwaves potent enough to demolish whole buildings. It's not clear what acoustium exactly does, except increasing the acoustic properties when included in a metallic alloy. |
| Adamantium | Marvel Comics | Used in various settings; greatly known to be part of Wolverine's skeleton and claws. |
| Administratium | Joke | Slows down chemical reactions; a reaction normally complete in less than a second will take several days in its presence. This element is a joke, a spoof on the bureaucracy of scientific establishments and on descriptions of newly discovered elements. |
| AM2 | Sten series by Allen Cole and Christopher Bunch | Anti-matter mineral from parallel universe (only known to Emperor), the unique energy source that provides all power needs of mankind and the Earth Empire. |
| Amazonium | DC Comics | Found only on the island of Themyscira, this metal is used in alloys to create extremely strong and lightweight armor. An example of an Amazonium alloy is found in Wonder Woman's bracelets. |
| Arcanite | Warcraft universe | A dull, flexible metal that can be forged to an edge sharper than iron and steel. |
| Atmospherium | The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra | An extremely rare element, abundant in outer space, which among many other uses is a power source and capable of raising the dead. If obtained and researched, it would certainly have countless benefits for Science! |
| Bolonium or Bolognium | Futurama, The Simpsons, others | A fictional element used to describe something as impossible or nonsensical: "Your explanations are pure, weapons-grade bolonium!" According to Oscar Mayer's promotional periodic table of elements in The Simpsons, the atomic weight of bolonium is "delicious" or "snacktacular", |
| Balthorium ("Balthorium-G") | [[Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]] | A fictional element used in the Russians' doomsday device. It is possible that this is a mispronunciation on the part of actor Peter Bull of the words "Cobalt-Thorium G," as both (real) elements can be used in atomic weapons to increase the amount of dangerous nuclear fallout, which agrees with the sense in which "Balthorium" is used in the movie. |
| Basidiumite (also Brumblium) | Eleanor Cameron's Mushroom Planet series | A slightly greenish solid, twice the density of uranium. Infragreen spectrum. Makes up the blue-green planet Basidium. |
| Bendezium | Metroid Prime | An extremely tough metal that can only be destroyed by a power bomb. |
| Bernalium | Doctor Who serial "The Wheel in Space". | Because it is stated as being a source of power, it would apparently be radioactive. It gets its name from J. D. Bernal, a British physicist. |
| Byzanium | Raise the Titanic | A highly powerful radioactive element transported in a safe aboard the sunken RMS Titanic. |
| Calculon | Tintin, "Destination Moon" | Discovered by Professor Cuthbert Calculus. This substance has a silicon base and can resist very high temperatures. It was one of the scientific discoveries that enabled Professor Calculus to plan a manned mission to the Moon. |
| Carmot | mythology, alchemy | The material which the Philosopher's stone is said to be made of. Both items may be one and the same. |
| Cavorite | H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon; also used in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and A Deepness in the Sky | Cavorite is impervious to gravity and can shield other materials from its effects. It is used to shield a craft from Earth's pull, allowing easy flight. It was named after its discoverer, Mr. Cavor, who used its levitational properties to travel to the Moon. |
| Chelonium | The Science of Discworld | A material which according to the Unseen University wizards mostly makes up the world-bearing turtle "Great A'Tuin." Since they can do a test to determine its (non)existence in Roundworld they are probably correct. |
| Colour out of space | H. P. Lovecraft's horror tale "The Colour Out of Space" | Toxic and mutagenic element, of indescribable colour and unknown spectrum, from a meteorite that lands in a field. |
| Dalekanium | Doctor Who | A metal used by the Daleks as a component of their armoured casings. Also, in an alternate reality, an unstable explosive powerful enough to penetrate those casings. The two may not be the same substance. |
| Deletium | User Friendly | An unwanted substance typically removed from computer systems. Characterized by consistent performance failures and expensive upgrades. Also, any Microsoft product. |
| Dilithium | Star Trek | A fictional crystalline mineral in the universe of Star Trek that is used to regulate the anti-matter-powered warp drives that allow starships to travel faster than light. |
| Disgruntium | Joke | An element which attracts and absorbs all levity, humor, and joy. It is highly toxic on direct contact but also radiates an unknown particle or field which affects the emotional state of nearby individuals. |
| Element 152 | DC Comics | Element created by Mon-El by combining gold, silver and iron. It has anti-gravity properties and was eventually used in rings, allowing members of the Legion of Super-Heroes to fly. |
| Elephantanium | Duck Dodgers | Turns the one who contacts it into an elephant. |
| Elephantigen | The Science of Discworld | A material which according to the Unseen University wizards makes up the four world-bearing elephants: Berilia, Tubul, Great T'phon and Jerakeen. Since they can do a simple test to determine whether it exists in Roundworld they are probably correct. |
| Elerium | [[X-COM: UFO Defense]] | The element, atomic number 115, upon which all alien power systems are based. It facilitates space flight (although whether faster-than-light or not is not explicit) due to its property of emitting gravity waves under particle bombardment. Used as a fuel for advanced craft, and to power weapons and devices based on alien technology. |
| Eternium | DC Comics | An ore that is said to be a major source of magic power. Comes from only one location: the Rock of Eternity, the home of the wizard Shazam and guarded by all members of the Marvel family. The Rock was destroyed in the 30th century, causing the fourth Captain Marvel to search for the pieces. Following the explosion, however, Eternium proved to be harmful to her, in a manner comparable with Kryptonite's effect on Kryptonians. Also referenced in World of Warcraft as the most difficult lockbox in the game, only dropped in high level dungeons and can only be opened by experienced lockpickers. |
| Etherium / Aetherium / Volucite / Hikouseki / Levitation Stone | Castle in the Sky | A bright blue mineral present in small amounts in all rocks in the location Castle in the Sky takes place in. Pure crystals of etherium, which are very difficult to manufacture, are capable of repelling gravity to a degree, causing objects to float. It also stimulates plant growth. "Hikouseki" (飛行石), Levitation Stone in romaji, is speculated to be its English version "Volucite". |
| Femium | Wonder Woman TV Series | Element found only on Paradise Island. Prolonged exposure to radiation from ore gives women immortality and superstrength; has no effect on men. Ore can be fashioned into a bulletproof metal, but is usually used for jewelry, such as bracelets. Feminum was created for the TV series only and is not canonical in the DC Universe, where it is an analog to Amazonium (see above). |
| Finkilium | I Dream of Jeannie TV sitcom | A rare metal sought by NASA and imperative to the success of the Saturn 12 program. Mentioned in episode 116, "Guess Who's Going to Be A Bride". |
| Froonium | Farscape | A substance created by series producer Richard Manning while he still worked on Star Trek to represent any esoteric material. Appeared in Farscape as an in-joke in several episodes. Manning's Fandom nickname is "Froonium Ricky". |
| Handwavium | bad science fiction | Handwavium (as distinct from Unobtainium) is a substance used to violate the laws of physics or otherwise conveniently fill a plot hole without requiring effort on the part of the author. See "handwaving." Unobtainium, by contrast, is a substance that could (but is not known to) theoretically exist, or is impossible to obtain. See also [this site]. |
| Hellion | Kingdom of Loathing | The Hellion is a charged atom of Infernium. It is larger than you might think. And deadlier. Appears in-game as a monster made up of a single large(and deadly)atom which attacks by burning you with it's particles ("He positively hits you with a proton. The overall effect for you is negative. Ouch! Ugh! Ugh!"). When defeated it will sometimes drop a "Hellion Cube" which is used to make "Hell Broth" much the same way a bouillon cube makes regular broth. |
| Illudium Phosdex | Looney Tunes | Also known as the shaving cream atom, it was found only on Planet X, which was unfortunately destroyed when both Duck Dodgers and Marvin the Martian tried to conquer it for Earth and Mars, respectively. |
| Imperium X | Sten series by Allen Cole and Christopher Bunch | Highly inert element that does not annihillate when comes in contact with AM2. Is used to contain and store AM2. |
| Impervium | Donald Duck | Material of which the doors of Scrooge McDuck's money bin are made according to Carl Barks |
| Inertron | Legion of Super-Heroes | Chemical element that is resistant to all known forms of chemical and electromagnetic interaction. It is essentially indestructible. |
| Infernium | Kingdom of Loathing | Infernium ionizes to the Hellion, its only known state. See Hellion |
| Japanium | Mazinger Z | Extremely strong material used in the construction of Mazinger Z. Discovered by Doctor Tanaka. See also Super Alloy Z |
| Jouronium | Battlefield 2142 | A material used to make sniper rifle bullets and other gun components. |
| Jumbonium | Futurama | Each atom of this element is large enough to be easily visible to the naked eye, with marble-sized nucleons and electrons. |
| Kryptonite | DC Comics | Crystalline material, originally in various colours with separate effects, harmful to Kryptonians and created during the destruction of Superman's home planet Krypton; synthesis is also possible. Green Kryptonite was established as the sole variety, element 126 on the periodic table of the elements, in John Byrne's retcon of the DC Comics universe. |
| Laconia | Phantasy Star video game series | Valuable metal used in the construction of weapons and armor, described as the strongest material in Algol. Found in great quantities on the planet Dezolis. |
| Lux | Arcot, Wade, and Morey novels by John W. Campbell | Material created from light; indestructible and transparent. Used in the hull of the heroes' spaceships. See also Relux. |
| Maclarium | Stargate SG-1 | Mentioned in passing, Maclarium is a heavy element that has an atomic weight of over 200. No other details are given. |
| Maractite | Neopets | It is an element that can pass through water as easily as something could pass through air. It has an "inverted" way of corroding; it reacts fast with oxygen and carbon dioxide but stays unharmed if the oxygen is bonded to hydrogen. |
| Meat | Kingdom of Loathing | It's uses are many and varied, ranging from currency, to the creation of weapons and armor, to fuel. It appears in-game as a metal of sorts (veins found in the mines of Mt. McLargeHuge, for example) and meat in the literal sense ("It's sort of hard to tell where the meat he was carrying ends and the meat he was made of begins, but you're not too picky."). It's not edible, as no one in their right mind would eat money anyway. Densely-compressed meat is as hard as metal, leather, or wood when smithed, and meat is sticky when turned into paste (which is used to combine items into more useful items). Meat can also be alloyed with Asbestos ore, Chrome ore, and Linoleum ore (all three of which can be found in the mines of Mt. McLargeHuge) to meatsmith better weapons. When combined with the properties of bling, dictionaries, ketchup (or Catsup), spider webs, bows and wrapping paper, petrified time, etc, etc takes on those properties to alter one's stats in-game and provide special bonuses. |
| Meowium | The Solar Cat Book by Jim Augustyn | Atomic number 0. Primarily used as meowium dioxide (MeO2) which, when applied to the fur a a cat, produces a voltage between areas of differently colored fur in the presence of sunlight. |
| Metatron | Zone of the Enders | It serves functions similar to those of silicon, forming computer chips, but is much more advanced, capable of creating completely self-aware artificial intelligence. |
| Mithril | Middle-earth, several video games and role-playing games | A light, silvery metal that is as strong as steel, but very light and easy to work. While mithril has properties similar to those of titanium or aluminium alloy, the fact that it was mined in native form in Moria suggests it has no direct real-world analogue. It is used for making superb chain-mail armour and other means of protection. It can also be worked into other forms (much as iron ore can be used to make various grades of iron and steel) with unusual properties (reflecting only the light of the moon, for instance). An alternate spelling, "Mythril", appears in the video game series Final Fantasy with basically the same properties as mithril. Also, "Mithral" used in D&D books to avoid copyright infringement claims, and "Milrith" in Simon the Sorceror. |
| Naqahdah | Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis | A heavy metal used by the Goa'uld and others as a power source. |
| Narrativium | The Science of Discworld and [[The Science of Discworld II: The Globe]] | An element unique to the Discworld; proto-substance from which all things spring forth. It is the fundamental element of Story, and is how things know what they're meant to be. |
| Necronium | GURPS Technomancer | A magical, radioactive metal, similar to Plutonium in all applications, save that it radiates oz particles, poisoning by which tends to cause the victim to join the undead. It is produced artificially in nuclear reactors analogous to Pu. Depleted Necronium is dense metal devoid of all magic, very toxic to magical creatures. |
| Octiron | Discworld | A dense black metal that is a large part of the Discworld's crust. It is highly magical with a melting point above the range of metal forges. The gates of Unseen University are made out of it. A needle made of octiron will always point to the Hub, the centre of the Discworld's magical field; it will also darn its owner's socks by itself. The University tower bell ("Old Tom") is made of it, and rings audible silences. Coin's staff in Sourcery was made out of it. In its natural state it releases considerable quantities of magical radiation, but if it becomes negatively polarized, it can be used to absorb such radiation. Octiron under pressure generates significant amounts of heat, which accounts for most of the volcanic geological processes on Discworld (At least, that's what UU thinks on the matter). |
| Octogen | Discworld | A gas of otherwise unknown nature, it continuously releases a considerable amount of magical radiation. |
| Omega | [[Star Trek: Voyager]] | An unstable and vastly dangerous molecule capable of destructive explosions that also disrupt subspace, making warp travel impossible. This atom is a perfect energy source, but also highly unstable and can destroy warp space. Seven of Nine mentions that the Borg revere it religiously due to its perfection and multiple components working together perfectly. Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 (4.21) Episode #89 The Omega Directive, Star Date 51781.2 (Org. Air Date: 15 Apr 1998) |
| Onnesium | GDW Traveller/Marc Miller's Traveller | Rare element, atomic number 118, mildly radiactive and dangerous, which has been proved to be a viable room-temperature superconductor. Onnesium is normally found as small, silvery spheres embedded within meteroric nickel-iron. |
| Orichalcum | Mythology (Atlantis), Fate of Atlantis, several video games, Shadowrun, Irregular Webcomic | A reddish metal mined in Atlantis, used to make structures and walls. May be based on an actual mineral or gold/copper alloy, possibly Auricupride. Used to power the machinery in Atlantis in the Indiana Jones adventure game. It appears in several video games, usually as a material better than "ordinary" mithril. Orichalcum also appears as an alloy in several fictional settings; see below. |
| Oxyale | Final Fantasy | A strange liquid that produces oxygen. Used to breathe underwater. |
| Phazon | Metroid Prime and[[Metroid Prime 2: Echoes>2]]'' | A blue or occasionally orange mutagenic and (in high quantities) toxic ore. |
| Phlogiston | Dungeons & Dragons' Spelljammer campaign series | A highly-flammable medium, similar to the real-world interstellar medium, in which crystal spheres containing whole planetary systems are suspended; travel is conducted by "spelljammer ships", vessels more akin to old sailing ships than science fiction starships. Named after the Phlogiston theory, an obsolete scientific theory of combustion. |
| Phostlite | Tintin, "The Shooting Star" | Discovered by Professor Decimus Phostle. Exposure to this element causes living things to grow rapidly to enormous size. |
| Plutonite | Oakley | Oakley uses this name for the polycarbonate lenses in their sunglasses. |
| Protonite | Piers Anthony's The Apprentice Adept series | A mineral found only on the planet Proton, it was used throughout the galaxy as a powerful energy source. On Proton's magical alternate world, Phaze, it was Phazite, the source of magic energy. |
| Pyreal | Asheron's Call | Fictional metal found on the planet Auberean and used as currency and to forge weapons. |
| Relux | Arcot, Wade, and Morey stories by John W. Campbell | Material created from light; indestructible and totally reflective. Used in the hull of the heroes' spaceships, among other things. See also Lux. |
| Sinisite | Sinistar videogame series | A high-energy material occurring naturally in crystalline form, it is found in white (1983 original game) or blue and green (1999's Sinistar: Unleashed) variants, usually mined from asteroids. It is used in the building of pieces of technology, or purified to form the high-explosive weapons known as Sinibombs. |
| Solium | Battlestar Galactica | A fictional substance in the original version of the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica. It may or may not be used in explosives. |
| Solenite | Battlestar Galactica | A fictional substance in the original version of the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica. It may or may not be derived from solium. |
| Stupidium | Various | Used in several circumstances, many times to make fun of scientific jargon, especially of the use of names of elements with the suffix "-ium". |
| Supermanium | DC Comics | "The strongest metal known to science!...forged by him (Superman) from the heart of a mighty star!" A metallic ore designed to mimic Superman’s powers, as well as absorb red-sun light and Kryptonite radiation. Apparently doesn't exist post-Crisis on Infinite Earths. |
| Tibanna | Star Wars Expanded Universe | A metallic gas mined from the gas giant Bespin, the gas is used in weapons systems. |
| Tiberium | Command and Conquer Universe | Tiberium is a fictional crystal found in the game Command and Conquer. Typically green, it is named after the place of its initial discovery on the Tiber River in Italy in the late 20th Century. It leaches metals out of the soil, concentrating them in crystals which can easily be collected and processed. The leaching process leaves the landscape depleted, leaving the ground underneath effectively useless for agriculture. |
| Thyrium | Matthew Reilly's Temple | This rare-earth element came from a meteor and was to be used in a doomsday bomb. |
| Trinium | Stargate SG-1 | Alien material used in the show as a substance 100 times stronger than steel, which makes up the Stargate's Iris. |
| Tronium | Super Robot Wars (Video Game) | An alien mineral several times more radioactive than Uranium, it is used as a power source for the RTX-011 Hückebein Mk III, R-2 Powered, R-GUN Powered, and SRX. It is also the ammunition used in the battleship Hagane's Tronium Buster Cannon. Only six chunks of this material are said to exist on Earth. |
| Turbonium | Volkswagen Commercial and Total Recall | The focal point of the first commercial for the turbo-charged version of the New Beetle. In theory, it was the element from which the turbo version of the car was forged. In the movie Total Recall, it was a metal\alloy used to extract oxygen from the ice on Mars's core. |
| Tylium | Battlestar Galactica | A fictional ore in both versions of the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica. It is very rare throughout the known universe, but essential for fueling both human and Cylon space ships, including for the purpose of faster-than-light jumps. Also referred to as "Tylinium." |
| Unobtainium | The Core, many thought experiments | Unobtainium is really any material that is unobtainable (for example, titanium was called "unobtainium" during the '60s within American aerospace due to the Soviets' cornering the market); although it can be that it possesses properties that are unlikely or impossible for any real material to possess and is hence completely unobtainable. It is also an informal name for an improbably strong material found in works of science fiction, only used explicitly in The Core. It is typically used to fill a plot hole, allowing characters to do things that may not be physically possible even in principle; thus a possibly more correct term is "handwavium." |
| Upsidaisium | The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show | Upsidaisium is a metal that is lighter than air and can be obtained by mining in upsidaisium-rich areas. |
| Uridium | Uridium computer game, 1986 | Name for the game's top level, a metallic element the developer thought existed. |
| Vibranium | Marvel Comics | An extraterrestrial metal that exists in two forms. Wakandan vibranium absorbs vibrational energy (e.g. sound). The more energy it stores the tougher it becomes, due to the energy reinforcing its molecular bonds. If the bonds are broken, all the energy is released, causing an explosion. It is found only in the African nation of Wakanda, ruled by the Black Panther. The other form, Antarctic vibranium, emits a vibration that separates the bonds of other metals, liquifying them. |
| Vik-ro | Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs | One of the two components of Lor (see below), which when combined with Yor-san results in total annihilation of the Lor, releasing tremendous energy. |
| Vionesium | Doctor Who | In the serial Terror of the Vervoids, Vionesium is described as a rare metal from the planet Mogar. It burns brightly in air, similarly to Magnesium. The Sixth Doctor used this effect to destroy the plant based Vervoids by accelerating them through their lifecycle. |
| Vizorium | Dirty Pair | A rare metal used in the construction of warp engines in the Dirty Pair universe. First referenced in the Dirty Pair movie, Project EDEN. |
| Warpstone or Wyrdstone | Warhammer Fantasy, also Warhammer 40,000 1st and 2nd editions | A greenish-black crystal apparently of solidified magic that holds tremendous transmutatory powers: Among other things, it can be used as fuel, or even to turn base metal into gold. |
| Wellstone | The Wellstone by Wil McCarthy | Formally known as Quantum Wellstone, it is a quantum dot, programmable substrate that can emulate the properties of other elements, including the copyrighted atom Bunkerlite, impervium, and various other super-reflectors and super-absorbers. |
| X | E. E. Smith's Skylark of Space series | Mysterious platinum-group metal which, when plated upon another metal such as copper, allowed that other metal to be converted entirely from mass into energy in the presence of the radiation of DuQuesne's "whatsitron". |
| Yor-san | Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs | One of the two components of Lor (see below) which when combined with Vik-ro results in total annihilation of the Lor, releasing tremendous energy. |
| Yuanon | Crest of the Stars novels | A massive subatomic particle that emits a constant stream of energy (on the order of 500MW). It is the "closed" form of a planespace Sord (the open form being the 1000km wide, whitehole-like gateway into planespace). |
| Zexonite | EarthBound | An elemental ore not found on Earth, it is taken from a meteorite and used to complete the Phase-Distorter, a machine capable of sending metals and souls, but not complex organic matter, across time. |
| Zphiroude Crystal | Super Robot Wars | An elemental alien material found on the planet Balmar. Named after the Balmarian god of creation and divine justice, Zphiroude crystals are capable of self-replication and radiate energy that can be harnessed as a power source. The crystals also gain sentience in large numbers and are thus used by the Ze Balmary empire in its giant robots as a power source. Their most advanced mech, also named Zphiroude, can change its form to adapt to its enemies. In the Original Generation series, a large chunk of Zphiroude crystals assumed sentience and called itself the Septuagint. It appeared as the final boss of the aforementioned game. |
| Zuunium | Legion of Superheroes | A rare element in metallic form, found on the planet Zuun. One of the strange effects of its radiation is that it gives anyone exposed to it the powers of lycanthropy. One such "victim" of exposure became the Legionnaire Timber Wolf. |
Fictional
| Name | Isotope of | Source | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curium-82 | Curium | Brødrene Dal og Spektralsteinene | Although this isotope could never actually appear anywhere, as all Curium has at least 96 nucleons, it is used in the Norwegian film 'Brødrene Dal og Spektralsteinene' as a McGuffin. Professor Slatters claims that with it he can find a cure/vaccine for the common cold, and he and the Dal brothers go on an expedition to search for a meteorite with a sufficient amount of it. They do find one, although it is there alloyed with 'Umulium' (loosely translated from Norwegian: 'Impossibilium'), making the Curium-82 unobtainable. |
| Quadium | Hydrogen | The Mouse that Roared | Common hydrogen has one proton, one electron, and no neutrons. Deuterium and tritium have, respectively, one and two neutrons per atom, and are used for hydrogen bombs. Quadium, following logic, must have three neutrons, and is, in the story, capable of blasting an entire continent off the face of the Earth. |
| Plutonium-186 | Plutonium | The Gods Themselves | An isotope of plutonium which is too unstable to exist in our universe but which exists naturally in parallel universes whose strong nuclear forces are more intense. |
| Quantium-40 | Potassium | Babylon 5 | Essential to the functioning of jumpgates. According to the [Unofficial Babylon 5 Technical Manual], the rare and expensive substance is formed when ordinary matter is subjected to the stresses of a star going nova, pushing some of its electron pair-bonds into hyperspace. Any element can become a quantium; the most commonly-found form is derived from an isotope of potassium with an atomic weight of 40, hence Quantium-40. The name was coined by a member of GEnie's Science Fiction RoundTable, David Strauss, in response to a request from the show's creator. |
Isotopes of fictional elements
| Name | Isotope of | Source | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illudium Q-36 | Illudium Phosdex | Looney Tunes | Used by Marvin the Martian as a planet-destroying explosive. |
| Naqahdriah | Naqahdah | Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis | A highly unstable variant of Naqahdah with greater explosive properties. It can also be used for the powering of highly efficient hyperspace engines. Naqahdriah is formed from Naqahdah in an artificial chain reaction. The only known planet containing Naqahdriah is Langara (the home of Jonas Quinn) where large deposits were accidentally created from natural Naqahdah deposits when a bomb using a relatively small amount of the material was tested by Jonas and a team of human scientists, radiation from the explosion started the chain reaction. It was originally created in relatively small amounts millennia ago by an unknown Goa'uld scientist. Unprotected exposure can lead to brain damage, delusions and/or schizophrenia. |
| Thyrium-261 | Thyrium | Matthew Reilly's novel Temple | This isotope is found only in the Pleiades, a binary star system. It is capable of generating enormous power in the right reactor configuration. It leaves no radioactive waste byproducts after use. It is also capable of forming a subcritical mass, detonating with enough power to vaporise a third of the Earth's mass, propelling it out of orbit, away from the sun. |
Fictional (sub)atomic particles
| Name | Source | Uses |
|---|---|---|
| Bigon | Discover Magazine | A particle discovered by French scientists which although exists for just millionths of a second, it is the size of a bowling ball. "The Bigon" was an April Fools joke article from issue no. 4/1996. |
| Kingon, Queon | Discworld | Particles that travel faster than light and transmit 'monarchy', since when a monarch dies, the successor is instantly the new monarch. These particles are occasionally intercepted by an anti-particle, or republicon. The theory that this method could be used for really fast information transmission (by carefully torturing a lesser king) was never fully developed, because at that point, the bar closed. |
| Reson | Discworld | Roughly translated as thingy, these particles combine to make up thaums. Similarly to real-world quarks, they come in five different flavors: Up, down, sideways, sex appeal and peppermint. |
| Thaum | Discworld | Long thought to be the smallest possible magical particle, the thaum has recently been proven to be made up of resons. |
| Oz | GURPS Technomancer | A particle that carries magical energy, found in places where boundaries between alternate possible realities are thin. Mages are able to control the flow of particles through spells, effectively reshaping the universe as they see fit. |
| Snarks, Boojums | [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]] novelisation | The sub-elementary particles that quarks are made from, discovered by Drs March and Madison, two Lewis Carroll fans involved with Project Genesis. Named after the creatures in The Hunting of the Snark. |
See also
- Archive of fictional things
- Fictional chemical substances, A-M
- Fictional chemical substances, N-Z
- Fictional applications of real materials
- List of discredited substances
- List of fictional medicines and drugs
- List of fictional toxins
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- Dracheneisen (from the 7th Sea roleplaying game): Strong, durable material that resembles silvery steel in its worked and tempered form, but is much harder. Dracheneisen is actually a lightweight ceramic (“as dense as cork—a full suit of armor weighs less than 10 pounds”) formed from a rare clay found only in the nation of Eisen. This makes dracheneisen ore the national treasure of Eisen and the foundation of every ruler and noble’s power base.
- Neutronium: In popular literature, this is used to refer to neutron-degenerate matter, which is expected to be the main component of neutron stars (though other compositions haven't been ruled out). In science fiction, the term "neutronium" is widely used, usually as the name of an extemely durable structural material (most famously as the invulnerable hull of the "planet eater" in the Star Trek episode "Doomsday Machine").
- Promethium X, from the Marvel universe, found in space by John Jameson, is related to the symbiote Venom, contains massive potential energy which is released when irradiated.
- Radium X: The extra-terrestrial radioactive element which was brought to Earth by a meteor in the science-fiction film "The Invisible Ray"
- Starmetal: Five Magic Materials. Meteoric Iron, crafted from the essence of dead gods and thrown from Heaven unto the earth. This material is used in artefacts that must foresee the future, and armour made from it will grow thicker where it predicts a strike will land (From the Roleplaying game "Exalted")
- Transuranic iron ore: the unrefined, radioactive form of the Thanagarian metal substance Nth metal from the DC Comics universe. Shown to have atomic number 676 (although it's possible that this is incorrect and could actually be the element's atomic weight).
- Vespene gas, found in the StarCraft universe.
- Duraplast, a common material in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, similar to plastic but with much greater durability.
- Ceramite: A ceramic-like compound used in armor and heat shielding. Unnaturally resistant to heat energy. Warhammer 40,000
- Bassnium (Fortium in Japanese version): Element of which Bass (Forte) and Zero are made of. It is suppossed to very strong and to posses a lot of energy within. Mega Man (series)
- Minovsky Particle: An elementary particle with near-zero rest mass and capable of carrying either a positive or negative charge. Can be aligned into a cubic lattice formation known as an I-Field. It is the source of many technologies in the Universal Century Gundam universe.
External links
- [Elements from DC Comics Legion of Super-heroes]
- [Periodic Table of Comic Books] - lists comic book uses of real elements
- [Periodic table] from the BBC comedy series Look Around You.
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