List imaginary materials

This article aims at making a material list used or mentioned in works of fiction without having real existence. Some, become more notorious than of the existing substances, are the subject of separate articles.

In the literature

Cartoons

In STRIP CARTOONS Objective Tintin “the Moon”, professor Tournesol solves the problem of solidity of its lunar rocket by inventing the tournesolite , able to contain a nuclear explosion! This imaginary material is used here to solve an impossible situation;
Always in Tintin, in the album “the mysterious star”, the ore Calystène with the amusing property to make grow the living beings which were nourissent some (trees, spider). This imaginary material is used here to amuse the reader;
In the adventures of Superman, the hero, come from the planet (Krypton), is invulnerable. To create a weakness to him (and thus to make its adventures interesting), the authors invented the Kryptonite , a kind of Cristal green transparency which removes all its force with the hero. This material is used here clearly as dramatic spring.
the hero of the series X-Men, Wolverine has a skeleton in Adamantium , a indestructible metal.
band-drawn E.P. Jacobs “the ray U”, in the series Blake and Mortimer puts in scene a new radioactive material: the uradium (name close to two real radioactive elements, the Uranium and the Radium)
In band-drawn Will and Maurice Rosy “the green matter ”, in the series Hair and Tondu, the heroes study a kind of perfectly elastic and ultra-resistant, and green paste in addition.
the vibranium is a metal of the Univers Marvel able to absorb the surrounding vibrations. One finds some in Wakanda, country whose the Black Panther is the sovereign.

Novels

the cavorite , metal generating weightlessness and invented by Dr. Cavor in the First Men in the moon of H.G. Wells
the series of the novels Dune presents a rare drug, the spice , which prolongs the life and especially allows the space voyages while granting to the navigators the prescience necessary to displacements. Its importance is similar to that of oil.
In the Saga Vorkosigan, it is sometimes made use of thiopenta (probable deformation of Penthotal) as truth drug.
the Mithril , or Master-money, is a metal of the universe of Tolkien describes in the Lord of the Rings. One also finds objects in this material in the video game Diablo II

With the cinema and on television

In the world of Star Trek, the latinum (invaluable), the corbomite (explosive, device and operation);
In the series Stargate, the extraterrestrial materials abound: Naquadah , Naquadria , Trinium … They are used for dépayser the spectator, and to create a spring of the intrigue: these imaginary materials are invaluable and the heroes must fight to get some;
In the Star Wars, the carbonite is used to freeze Han Solo. The city of the clouds extracts the gas tibannah ; the wide world presents the plastacier like material used to manufacture the hulls of spaceships, and the transpacier for the cockpits.
Flubber, of Mayfield, puts in scene a green substance.
the Slime is an ectoplasmic matter having various characteristics in the universe of S.O.S. Phantoms.
the Gibolin of the Deschiens is a drink miracle with the multiple uses.

In the video games

the Larium of the play Mankind ;
the Tiberium in the series Command & Conquer .

On Internet

green Powder, a Powder miracle supposed to solve all the problems Data-processing S, presented on the mode of the Irony.

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