What is trilithium?
Ari Joel
Okay... what is trilithium?
Two sources from star trek show two different answers:
1) Starship Mine says that trilithium is a byproduct of the warp
engines. It is highly unstable and only used for weapons.
2) Generations says that trilithium is a nuclear inhibitor and highly
explosive. But, it seems that Soran, being a great scientist, invented
Trilithium and it can only be obtained from him.
Does anybody know what the deal is? I looked it up in the encyclopedia,
but there was no entry, even though the encyclopedia came out long after
Starship mine.
Joel
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Adam Maxwell
#2 is slightly wron. Soran didn't invent trillithium. The
Romulans had been experimenting with for some time in hopes of creating
a weapon. Soran created the "weapon," not the substance.
Marty Blase
> Okay... what is trilithium?
>
> Two sources from star trek show two different answers:
> 1) Starship Mine says that trilithium is a byproduct of the warp
> engines. It is highly unstable and only used for weapons.
>
> 2) Generations says that trilithium is a nuclear inhibitor and highly
> explosive. But, it seems that Soran, being a great scientist, invented
> Trilithium and it can only be obtained from him.
>
probably soran's trilithium was the only form of _stable_ trilithium,
which would be kinda essential for using it in an effective bomb.
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MrMagic
combined), and is the bi-product of Li2, which is used to createand
destroy antimatter. It comes in the form 3Li3 (all you chemists should
be able to figure this out). Tri-lithium was only available from the
Klingons, and the romulans wanted some, because Romulan Warp warp ingines
are not powered by DiLithium, and the Romulans wanted a better weapon, as
did the klingons.
Arkadiusz Wdowiak
a highly-energized version of dilithium. Extremely rare, but much more
powerful. In fact, it vibrates in yor hand and can disrupt "life energy"
so that if stabbed with the crystal that part of your body doesn't die,
but ceases to operate, much like a Tessla coil can affect radio/tv
reception while activated, so now there are THREE efinitions of trilithium.
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Eric Diamond
MrMagic <mrm...@merlin.nando.net> writes:
DiLithium is *not* use to create and destroy antimatter, it is used to control
matter/antimatter reactions. TriLithium is a by product of that reaction.
Some of the DiLithium is heated to a gasseous state from the heat generated by
the matter/antimatter reaction. Most of this gasseous Lithium is
re-crystallized within the reaction chamber, but some of it escapes in the
plasma stream. This escaping Lithium is deposited on the walls of the plasma
conduit that leaves the reaction chamber. Some how, this process produces a
Lithium molecule containing 3 atoms.
This, at least, is what the Trek writers would have us believe.
However, Lithium, like most elements, is a monomolecular substance. A single
Lithium atom is a stable molecule. Also, I don't believe that it is possible
to crate a molecule, crystaline or otherwise, containing more than one atom of
lithium, that also doesn't contain any other element. (If there are any
chemists out there who can refute this, please do.)
Eirc
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David Packard
Right so far, however...I believe that DiLithium is not used to CONTROL
the reaction. That is done by other means, i.e. somesort or magneto/energetic
shielding... I believe it is used to create the 4 dimensional properties of
the warp field... I can't back this up with any episode in my memory, but
there is (*DREAD*) at least one book out there that attempts to explain it
and this explanation makes more sense to me....
-Dave