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Any material, real or imagined, that is used in works of fiction, particularly as used as a component of a fictional object.
   
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x Dust        
Dust in Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels His Dark Materials is a mysterious cosmic particle that is integral to the plot. In Northern lights, Lord Asriel reveals the origins of the term "Dust" to be from a passage from the slightly alternate...
x Melange Melange+Snooper-Dune1984      
Melange (alternately, "the spice") is the name of the fictional drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert, and derivative works. In the series, the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe is melange, a...
x Transparent aluminum        
Transparent aluminium is a state of aluminium achieved by bombarding a thin (50 nm) Al foil with soft X-ray laser radiation (wavelength 13.5 nm). The short laser pulse knocks out a core L-shell electron from every aluminium atom without breaking the...
x Kryptonite Kryptonite DC Universe Green  
Kryptonite is a fictional element from the Superman mythos, originating in the Superman radio show series. The material is usually shown as having been created from the remains of Superman's native planet of Krypton, and generally has detrimental...
x Dilithium        
In the Star Trek universe, dilithium is a fictional chemical element, although the name also applies to a real-world molecule. Dilithium is depicted as an extremely hard crystalline mineral, which occurs naturally on some planets. When placed in a...
x Mithril Bilbo Baggins shows his mithril shirt to Frodo in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy     Nenya
Mithril is a fictional metal from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings. Like the real metal titanium, it is silvery and stronger than steel but much lighter in weight. The author first wrote of it in The Lord of the Rings, and it was...
Mithril shirt
x Adamantium        
Adamantium is a fictional alloy that has been depicted largely within the pages of comic books, feature films, television shows and video games, most notably as the substance Wolverine's skeleton and bone claws are bonded to. Adamantium is a...
x Silima   Middle-earth   Silmaril
The Silmarils were made out of the crystalline substance silima by Fëanor, a Noldorin Elf, in Valinor during the Years of the Trees. The Silmarils are not mere jewels which shine with a great light. The three Silmarils are in some sense both alive...
x Galvorn   Middle-earth    
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Galvorn was a jet black metal (probably an alloy) devised by the Dark Elf Eᅢᄊl after he became greatly skilled in metalwork after learning the craft from the Dwarves of Nogrod and Belegost. The unique metal was as...
x Gold GoldNuggetUSGOV     One Ring
Gold, also called golden, is an orange-yellow color which is a representation of the color of the element gold. The web color gold (also referred to as orange-yellow) is sometimes referred to as golden in order to distinguish it from the color...
x Thiotimoline        
Thiotimoline is a fictitious chemical compound conceived by science fiction author Isaac Asimov and first described in a spoof scientific paper titled "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" in 1948. In Asimov's writing,...
x Pixie dust        
Pixie dust, also known as "fairy dust", is a fictional substance. It is a trail of sparkling material that often follows mythical creatures such as pixies and fairies in general when they are visually represented. Sometimes, this trail is...
x Vibranium   Marvel Universe   Captain America's shield
Vibranium is a fictional metal that appears in the Marvel Universe. It is most commonly known as one of the materials used to construct Captain America's shield. Vibranium first appeared in Daredevil #13 (February 1966), by Stan Lee and John Romita...
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x Meteoric Iron       Dawn  
x Tiberium Tiber Command & Conquer series Emerald  
Tiberium is a fictional substance that is central to the plot of much of the Command & Conquer series of real-time strategy video games. Within each C&C; title set in the Tiberium story arc (Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun, Tiberium...
x Nucleon        
Nucleon is a power source in the fictional Transformers universe. It was introduced during the beginning of the Action Masters toyline in 1990. The Action Masters were composed of small-scale 3¾" Transformers, a mixture of pre-exisitng characters,...
x Liquid electricity        
Liquid electricity is a fictional liquid substance that often appeared in comedy short films of the silent film era. It is the "distilled essence of electricity" in liquid form, a (usually) glowing substance easily stored in bottles. It provides...
x Upsidaisium Bars of upsidaisium in storage      
Upsidaisium is a fictional element that appeared in the 1950s and 1960s Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show animated series, in the story arc entitled Upsidaisium. The term comes from "ups-a-daisy!", an expression often used when playfully...
x Orichalcum        
Orichalcum is a metal mentioned in several ancient writings, most notably the story of Atlantis as recounted in the Critias dialogue, recorded by Plato. According to Critias, orichalcum was considered second only to gold in value, and was found and...
x Water of Life        
The Water of Life is a fictional drug from Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe. In Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of the 1965 novel Dune, Herbert provided the following definition: WATER OF LIFE: an "illuminating" poison ......
x Red mercury        
Red mercury is a mythical substance of uncertain composition purportedly used in the creation of nuclear bombs, as well as a variety of unrelated weapons systems. Samples obtained from arrested would-be terrorists invariably consisted of nothing...
x Techno-organic material        
In the Marvel Comics universe and Transformers Beast Machines, techno-organic material is a material with properties and abilities of both organic and technological (mechanical and information-processing) material. An organism made of techno-organic...
x Adamant        
Adamant and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Both adamant and diamond derive from the Greek word αδαμας (adamas), meaning "untameable"....
x Elerium-115        
Elerium-115 is a fictional element featured in the X-COM video game series, with similarity to Robert Lazar's conspiracy theories about Ununpentium (Element-115). It is said to contain high amounts of energy. In the first X-COM game it is only...
x Promicin Kevin Burkhoff with a Promicin injection      
Promicin is a fictional neurotransmitter in the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400. The human body produces neurotransmitters that control and regulate bodily functions. In The 4400, every 4400 produces a fictitious...
x Energon Energon      
In the fictional universe of the Transformers, Energon (pronounced EN-ur-jon, like "energy") is the primary source of power for Transformers. Using Energon, Transformers live, power their machinery, and even craft weapons. In its raw form, Energon...
x Warpstone        
Warpstone is a fictional mutagen found in the Warhammer world, and also in the Warhammer 40,000 universe during the first and second editions. Humans and most other races in Games Workshop’s campaign game Mordheim refer to it as Wyrdstone. Warpstone...
x Celestial bronze        
Celestial bronze is a fictional metal used by many characters in the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Most demigods, including those at Camp Half-Blood, have celestial bronze weapons. Swords and daggers are made entirely of the metal, while...
x Bombastium Gyro Gearloose holding a stick of bombastium      
Bombastium is a fictional element which is not in the periodic table. Atomic number and atomic symbol are unknown. Bombastium, mentioned the first time by Carl Barks in 1957 (Uncle Scrooge No. 17), is claimed to be the rarest element in the world....
x Heartstone        
A heartstone is a fictional artifact common in dragon-related stories of high fantasy. It is a crystal of concentrated magic, and can be extracted from the heart of a slain dragon. It is believed that the heartstone is the source of a dragon's magic...
x Ice-nine        
Ice-nine is a fictional material conceived by writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat's Cradle. It is supposed to be a more stable polymorph of water than common ice (Ice Ih) which instead of melting at 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit), melts at 45.8°C ...
x Ekti        
In the Saga of Seven Suns novels written by Kevin J. Anderson, ekti is a fictional allotrope of hydrogen which is used to power the Ildiran stardrive, the only feasible method of interstellar travel at the start of the series. Ekti is harvested from...
x Neutronium        
Neutronium is a proposed name for a substance composed purely out of neutrons. The term was originally used in science fiction and in popular literature to refer to a highly dense phase of matter composed primarily of neutrons. The word was coined...
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