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Examples of super-metals include:

  • X, the metal which made space flight possible in '' The Skylark Of Space '' by E.E. "Doc" Smith .

  • Resistium, (the " Hydrogen " of the 'ultra-elements' which had a nucleus of negatrons and had orbital protons) was first featured in ''The Incredible Planet'' by John W. Campbell, Jr.

  • Durium, an alloy made from resistium and other ultra-elements from ''The Infinite Atom'' by John W. Campbell, Jr. (and was also used by E.E. "Doc" Smith in later works).

  • Radium X, the extra-terrestrial element which Dr. Janos Rukh ( Boris Karloff ) made a Death Beam device in the film ''The Invisible Ray''.

  • In '' Marooned '' by John W. Campbell, Jr., the Jovian exploration ship ''Mercury'' was constructed from Parium and '''Synthium,''' elements which had great Tensile Strength .

  • Byzanium, a fictional fissile element from '' Raise The Titanic! '' by Clive Cussler .

  • Unobtanium , the material from which the ship ''Virgil'' was constructed in the film '' The Core ''. the word ''unobtanium'' is also colloquially used by engineers to describe non-existent materials with desirable mechanical properties ("That shaft would have to be made of ''unobtanium'' in order to carry such a high load").

  • In the Marvel Comics universe, Wolverine's claws and metal skeleton are made of the super alloy Adamantium .

  • Neutronium (incredibly dense, degenerate ionised matter) is featured in many works of science fiction.

  • Bendezium of the Metroid Prime series can only be destroyed by the Power bomb weapon.

  • Mithril is a super metal from J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth universe. It is precious and silvery, stronger than steel but much lighter in weight. It first appears in ''The Hobbit'', where it is also called " Silver - Steel ". Its properties were developed in '' The Lord Of The Rings ''.

  • Durasteel is a brown super Alloy of exceptional strength in the '' Star Wars '' universe.

  • In '' Star Trek '', spacecraft hulls are made from the super metal alloys Duranium and '''Tritanium'''.

  • in '' StarCraft '', Neosteel is a super strong metal used to construct Terran Battlecruisers , proccessed from mineral Crystals .

  • In '' Warhammer 40,000 '', the Necrons utilize a material called Necrodermis (which translates into "Corpse Skin"), a metal that heals itself, for everything, including their own bodies.

  • The Yautja (the alien hunter race from the '' Predator '' films) use a super-light metal that can be forged to a Monomolecular Edge .

  • Chogokin Z (also known as '''Super-Alloy Z''') is the metal utilized to construct the eponymous Super Robot of the anime series '' Mazinger Z '', created with the newly-discovered element Japanium . Other variants include Chogokin New-Z, used to construct Great Mazinger , and Chogokin New-Zα, which was the basis material for Mazinkaiser . Series (and robot) sequel '' Grendizer '' also features an unrelated but still highly similar metal called '''Space Alloy Gren'''.

  • Rearden metal, a green blue metal 3x stronger than steel used to build rails in the book '' Atlas Shrugged ''.