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Elements

Elements comprise the minerals, metals, and other naturally-occurring substances that exist as resources. The below table indicates whether or not the element is normally found as diffuse minerals, found in veins of ore (metals), or stand out from the either two as radioactive. Additionally, those that crystallize into gemstones and industrial crystals are also identified under the type column. The known usages for each are provided, as well as their rarity; normal metals are those classified as "very common," "common," or "standard," while "rare" and "very rare" are considered to be special metals.

Element	Type	Usage	Source	Rarity
Antimonium	mineral	flame retardant and battery alloy		standard
Bakrinium	mineral			standard
Boridium	mineral	energy cells, edged tools/weapons		standard
Cormaline	mineral			common
Cormalite	mineral			common
Cortenum	mineral	warp nacelles		standard
Deuterium	mineral (gas/slush)	hydrogen isotope used with tritium for warp reactor fuel	stars, gas giants	common
Fortanium	mineral	space stations		standard
Germanium	mineral	transistors		standard
Magnesite	mineral	antimatter radiation buffer in warp reactors; interference from scans, beams, and transporters		standard
Noranium	mineral	various alloys		very common
Topaline	mineral	(early) life support systems		very rare
Trevium	mineral	light sources		standard
Trimagnesite	mineral	light sources		standard
Verterium	mineral	warp nacelles		common
Bernicium	mineral	replicators		rare
Feldomite	mineral	valuable trading commodity		rare
Fistrium	mineral	interference of sensor readings		standard
Gallicite	mineral	warp coils	found in large deposits	rare
Invidium	mineral	medical stasis fields (thru 23rd c.); very dangerous		rare
Kelbonite	mineral	deflecting/interference of scans, beams, and transporters		standard
Ladarium	mineral	warp drives		standard
Ryetalyn	mineral	drug to treat Rigelian fever		rare
Trellium-A	mineral			very common
Trellium-D	mineral	hull insulation (from certain anomalies), but damaging to Vulcan neural pathways		rare
Uridium	mineral	starships and sensor arrays; unstable		rare
Vendarite	mineral	trading commodity		rare
Zemite	mineral	treats plant diseases		very rare
Kemocite	radioactive	large-scale energy weapons; other (unknown) uses		standard
Pergium	radioactive	life-support equipment		standard
Tritium	radioactive	mixed with deuterium for warp reactor fuel		standard
Tritonium	radioactive	tracking devices and to interfere with scans		standard
Uranium	radioactive	fuel for fission reactors		refined (from urantite)
Dentarium	metal	starship hulls		standard
Diburnium	metal	shielding devices, including brigs and deflectors		standard
Duranium	metal	starship and shuttlecraft hulls, gravitic technology		standard
Duridium	metal	containers		standard
Golside	metal			standard
Nitrium	metal	starships, warp reactors	asteroids	standard
Osmium	metal	radiation shielding (including warp nacelles) and deflectors		standard
Quonium	metal	extremely magnetic; alloyed with iron to help contain antimatter		standard
Tritanium	metal	commonly used in starship bulkheads and other forms of construction		standard
Victurium	metal	starship superstructures, especially scouts & surveyors (due to high sensor capability requirements)		standard
Boronite	metal	necessary for Omega synthesis		very rare
Latinum	metal	non-replicable liquid used as valuable trading commodity		rare
Mizinite	metal	starships		rare
Rodinium	metal	very hard metal, used in spacecraft and fixed installations		rare
Jevonite	gem stone	enhances other objects, such as ornamental weapons		standard
Keva	gem stone	ornamental for badges of office		standard
Lobi	gem stone	crystal for inexpensive jewelry and ornaments		common
Benamite	industrial crystal	unstable; extremely difficult to synthesize; quantum drives		rare
Bilitrium	industrial crystal	antimatter-based energy sources and explosives (e.g., photon torpedoes)		standard
Dilithium	industrial crystal	critical for (advanced) warp reactors	planetary surfaces/(slight) subsurfaces	rare
Tricyanate	industrial crystal	poisonous (to humanoids); industrial complexes		standard
Bauxite	mineral	refined into aluminum		standard
Bertrandite	mineral	refined into beryllium		standard
Coltan	mineral	refined into tantalum		standard
Cryolite	mineral	refined into pesticides, explosives, and chemicals		standard
Gallite	mineral	refined into gallium; high tech		standard
Goslarite	mineral	medicines		standard
Indite	mineral	refined into indium	volcanoes and asteroids	standard
Lepidolite	mineral	refined into lithium		standard
Moissanite	mineral	electronics, thermal energy absorption, and jewelry		rare
Pyrophyllite	mineral	science research and various arts/crafts		common
Uranitite	mineral	refined into uranium		standard
Bromellite	mineral	electronics, metal production, jewelry, and fission	planetary rings	common
Lithium Hydroxide	mineral	refined into lithium		common
Methane Clathrate	mineral	mining and refining complexes	icy planets	common
Methanol Monohydrate	mineral	electronics	planetary rings	common
Aluminium	metal	industry		refined (from bauxite)
Beryllium	metal	alloys, spacecraft		refined (from bertrandite)
Bismuth	metal	alloys, medicines	planetary sub-surfaces	standard
Cobalt	metal	alloys, biotech	asteroids, planetary rings	common
Copper	metal	alloys, electrical conductor, biotech	planet sub-surfaces	common
Gallium	metal	semiconductors, lasers	refined (from bauxite)	rare

Alloys

These are manufactured metals and do not occur naturally.

• Baakonite: edged tools and weapons
• Beritium: valuable; atmospheric craft
• Cortenide: light-weight casings
• Diamide: atmospheric craft
• Ditanium: trans-atmospheric hulls (such as shuttlecraft)
• Duritanium: provides protection from explosions in starship (and shuttlecraft) hulls and (later) casings of small objects
• Ermanium: shuttlecraft
• Paricium: space installations (out of favor by 24th c.)
• Talgenite: ceramics
• Terminium: hull casing for photon torpedoes
• Tetraburnium: hulls of trans-atmospheric crafts and probes designed for high pressure and heat (such as in a gas giant)
• Toranium: space installations, usually of a military nature

Compounds

These items are combinations of elements that manufactured to forms other than hard metals, such as chemically as drugs, fuels, or explosives, or as alloys for batteries and other manufactured products.

• Blitmanite: fuel in certain scientific explosive devices; susceptible to ionizing radiation
• Brizeen: agricultural fertilizer
• Cryonetrium: gaseous even at very cold temperatures; halts invidium contamination, as well as other (undocumented) uses
• Dicosilium: mirrors and other optically-reflective devices
• Dolamide: energy source in power generators, dolamide reactors, transporters, short-range transports and, when highly refined, weaponry
• Emiristol: solid propellant in pre-warp propulsion engines
• Ferranide: seal warp coils
• Mercassium: shield generators
• Neosorium: replicator technology; radioactive
• Paralithium: fuel for ion-based propulsion systems; can be converted into trilithium; radioactive
• Quaratum: reaction propellant, as in for thruster packs; susceptible to ignition by radiation
• Saltzgadum: agricultural sterilization agent (though discontinued as cheaper measures became available)
• Selgninaem: catalyst in industrial biochemical systems; highly toxic
• Seofurane: extremely inert substance often used in medical containment
• Tellerium: stabilizes matter/antimatter reactions
• Tetracyanate: industrial lubricant; highly toxic
• Ultritium: explosive
• Yurium: stores larges amounts of energy; explosive; radioactive