Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Materials: Cavorite & Barobenell

As in many fictional realms, MaL has its own special materials that stand out from the normal mundane elements and compounds.  Two of those materials are the alloys purple-blue Cavorite and burnt-orange  Barobenell.  Each has their own composition and properties that make them useful to characters in adventuring and other applications, and each quite rare to find outside specialized laboratories.

The mysterious alloy known as Cavorite is a composite made of melted purple amber, and pure helium, hydrogen and oxygen all brought to plasma state and cooled to room temperature in a pure vacuum.  The resulting solid is lighter than air, floating upward against air pressure unless otherwise weighted down.  It is not very durable, but one pound of it will negate the weight of two pounds of other materials, though it will faintly repel magnetic ones.  An electric current ran through it will cause its magnetic field to flip, making it faintly attract magnetic materials.  Cavorite will repel from itself unless forced together, but the larger the sample, the stronger the magnetic field.

Barobenell on the other hand is a composite made from copper, promethium, yttrium and carbon at gaseous state rapidly cooled to a solid state before it decays too far.  The rarity of this alloy makes it quite expensive, in addition to how quickly it is snatched up by those of strategic military intelligence due to its properties.  The more pressure that is exerted on Barobenell, the stronger it becomes, dissipating heat rapidly and retaining its weight and structure, being twenty-times stronger than diamond at half the weight.  Naturally occurring Barobenell is rare, sometimes found in comets or asteroids, and only survives entry into planets if cooled rapidly, such as when landing in a polar cap or a planet with an ice age active or dark-side of a tidally locked planet or moon, or celestial body with no atmosphere.  When an electric current is run through Barobenell it accelerates its decay,  being an incredible superconductor for a short period of time before it breaks down into its composite elements.

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