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Crystals of this substance power the warp drive on starships in the 'Star Trek' universe. | |
This metal, stronger than steel, but lighter in weight, was mined in Moria. | |
In order for Transformers to use this power source, it must be refined from a crystal into liquid form. | |
When this Kurt Vonnegut-created substance comes into contact with water below its 45.8 C melting point, it freezes water. | |
The green variety of this material is particularly lethal to people like 'The Man of Steel'. | |
In 'Avatar', humanity invades Pandora to get this mineral, worth 'about $20 million-per-kilogram.' | |
This material was invented by a Professor Ned Brainard, an absent-minded professor at Medfield College. | |
Frank Herbert describes this drug at the center of his 'Dune' universe, as having an odor similar to cinnamon. | |
Wolverine (of the X-Men) has a skeleton composed of this material. | |
The Jem'Hadar are controlled through an addiction to this colorful drug. | |
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This term could be applied to an ancient 'fifth element', or the lumeniferous medium through which scientists used to think light traveled through. | |
In 'Brave New World', the citizens of The World State are all happy, partially because of this halucinogen without after effects, which their government encourages them to take. | |
Galen Tyrol once led a strike on a ship that processed this mineral, the fuel source for ships in the 'Battlestar Galactica' universe. | |
The Antarctic variety of this metal is usually called 'anti-metal', and usually just refers to the Wakandan variety. It was a primary constituent of Captain America's shield. | |
It is a fuel, a power source, and an explosive, but most importantly, it is the material which stargates are made of. | |
C-3PO noted that this substance should protect Han Solo, provided that he survived the freezing process (which of course he did). | |
This see-through material was 'invented' by Dr. Nichols of Plexicorp in San Francisco ... thanks to some help from Mr. Scott in 'Star Trek IV'. | |
In a Clive Cussler novel, recovering this mineral for the Sicilian Project is the reason why Dirk Pitt raises the Titanic. | |
Before combustion was understood, the predominant explanation for how things burnt was that flammable materials contained this undetectable substance which was lost while burning. | |
In Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged', Dagny Taggart meets the inventor of this eponymous metal. | |
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