![]() Real Life meteoric iron, on the other hand, mostly resembles a low-grade stainless steel, because that's what it effectively is - it's a natural alloy of iron, nickel, sometimes chromium and some other trace elements. The typical "miraculous" meteoric iron is a jet-black metal that is much stronger than regular iron and often has magical properties as well. Meteoric iron (variously called sky iron, thunderbolt iron, star iron, and so on) is a real alloy, but its depiction in fantasy is very often a very different metal than it is in reality.If adamantium isn't of the maaagic! level of indestructibility and is given more down-to-earth properties, then it resembles the real-world metals tungsten and rhenium. It tends to be even stronger than mithril, although it is usually rather heavy compared to mithril's supernatural lightness. And, indeed, this metal is diamond-hard and much more strong and resilient than diamond to boot. Adamantium (variously spelled adamantine, adamantite or adamant): the name comes from Greek adamas, "diamond".Orichalcum's properties vary heavily from source to source: sometimes its schtick is strength, sometimes high value, sometimes magic resistance, sometimes room-temperature superconductivity. The name means "mountain copper" in Greek, and it, indeed, often appears the color of copper or bronze. Orichalcum (variously spelled orichalcon, orihalcon or orichalc): a metal first appearing in Plato's version of the Atlantis myth, where its main feature is being almost, but not quite, as valuable as gold.Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as an Infinity Plus One Metal, but in later examples it's a mid-level miracle metal only, above steel but below adamantium. The name is Sindarin for "silvery glitter". ![]() Mithril (variously spelled mithral, mythral or mythril): a lightweight, very strong, silvery metal, similar to the real-world metal titanium.The most often-encountered types of fantasy metal are: Real Life examples are only allowed if they are in fact occult superstitions (like hard mercury) or well-known hoaxes (like red mercury). In a nutshell, Wolverine's adamantium and Boba Fett's Mandalorian iron are examples of this trope, but a composite of titanium around a carbon nanotube matrix isn't. Science-fiction examples are only good if they are from a work that is "science" in name only (such as four-color comics or space fantasy like Star Wars or Warhammer 40,000) harder-science materials actually explained as high-tech alloys with some verisimilitude aren't. Note that this is mostly a Fantasy trope. This Super-Trope describes the "shiny and wondrous" kind of metals. Metals that are brittle, soft, flammable, react violently with water or air or are otherwise useless for smithing swords and shields from them never appear in fantasy, despite there being a lot of these in Real Life. In fiction, especially fantasy, a metal is shiny stuff with wonderful properties like super strength, lightness, magic resistance and so on, often not resembling any of the metals found in the periodic table. note While in Astronomy, everything except hydrogen and helium is a metal, but that's not the point. In Real Life, a metal is an element of the periodic table which belongs to one of certain groups/columns and has a specific type crystal lattice with free electrons. Wait, palladium isn't real? note Yes, palladium is real it's just not orange-colored.
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