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  2. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    Unlike Celestial Bronze and Imperial Gold, monsters killed by it cannot reform, and it can kill non-magical creatures as well as magical creatures. Supermanium DC Comics: Used in making Superman's Supermobile. A metal so strong that "only Superman's heat vision can soften the substance, and only his super-strength is mighty enough to mold it!" [79]

  3. Physically based rendering - Wikipedia

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    A diamond plate texture rendered close-up using physically based rendering principles. Microfacet abrasions cover the material, giving it a rough, realistic look even though the material is a metal. Specular highlights are high and realistically modeled at the appropriate edge of the tread using a normal map.

  4. Patina - Wikipedia

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    Patina (/ p ə ˈ t iː n ə / pə-TEE-nə or / ˈ p æ t ɪ n ə / PAT-ih-nə) is a thin layer that variously forms on the surface of copper, brass, bronze, and similar metals and metal alloys (tarnish produced by oxidation or other chemical processes), or certain stones [1] and wooden furniture (sheen produced by age, wear, and polishing), or ...

  5. Meteoric iron - Wikipedia

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    Meteoric iron, sometimes meteoritic iron, [1] is a native metal and early-universe protoplanetary-disk remnant found in meteorites and made from the elements iron and nickel, mainly in the form of the mineral phases kamacite and taenite. Meteoric iron makes up the bulk of iron meteorites but is also found in other meteorites.

  6. List of named alloys - Wikipedia

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    Bronze (tin, aluminum or other element) Aluminium bronze ; Arsenical bronze (arsenic, tin) Bell metal ; Bismuth bronze ; Brastil (alloy, bronze) [5] [6] Florentine bronze (aluminium or tin) Glucydur (beryllium, iron) Guanín (gold, silver) Gunmetal (tin, zinc) Phosphor bronze (tin and phosphorus) Ormolu ; Silicon bronze (tin, arsenic, silicon)

  7. Bronze - Wikipedia

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    Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.

  8. Orichalcum - Wikipedia

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    Orichalcum or aurichalcum / ˌ ɔːr ɪ ˈ k æ l k ə m / is a metal mentioned in several ancient writings, including the story of Atlantis in the Critias of Plato.Within the dialogue, Critias (460–403 BC) says that orichalcum had been considered second only to gold in value and had been found and mined in many parts of Atlantis in ancient times, but that by Critias's own time, orichalcum ...

  9. Lithium molybdenum purple bronze - Wikipedia

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    Lithium molybdenum purple bronze is a chemical compound with formula Li 0.9 Mo 6 O 17, that is, a mixed oxide of molybdenum and lithium. It can be obtained as flat crystals with a purple-red color and metallic sheen (hence the "purple bronze" name). [1] [2] This compound is one of several molybdenum bronzes with general formula A x Mo y O