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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'' has Octarine, the Colour Of Magic, and its other forms including the metal octiron and the gas octogen.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': started out with naquadah as a solid material of the Stargate, and running through the blood of Goa'uld. Later liquid naquadah was added as a small weapons ammo, then the refined, denser weapons-grade naquadah, and heavy liquid naquadah for a weapons satellite system. Also branched off this trope into naquadria, a much more powerful, yet inherently unstable and radioactive version; the [[Toxic Phlebotinum]] of the series. The Asgard flagship is mentioned as being of a "naquadah-trinium-carbon alloy" too. Essentially they played this trope almost as an ongoing "Phlebotinum States On Demand".
* ''[[Star Trek]]'': The familiar dilithium crystal concept was later augmented with the introduction of trilithium, which is only useful for making star-destroying weapons. As such, this is the [[Toxic Phlebotinum]] version. Also mentioned is paralithium, which is only used with ion-based propulsion fuel, and relatively unimportant except for its use in creation of trilithium.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* [[Truth in Television]]: Almost everything comes in multiple states, solid, liquid, and vapor, along with non-Newtonian substances such as [[wikipedia:Oobleck|Oobleck]].▼
* However, the solid/liquid/gas phase is generally trivial to interchange. Structural differences (carbon vs graphite vs diamond) are often not trivial to interchange. Isotopes are most often separated out of a naturally occurring mixture. When isotopes need to be made, they often are made from completely unrelated elements, but in some cases are made from another isotope of the same element.▼
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* In ''[[Transformers]]'', Energon is normally a liquor, but in ''[[Beast Wars]]'', there's a naturally-occurring crystal Energon. The crystal form is notably more radioactive than the liquid form.
** Not so natural, as it's implied that the Vok created that Energon and seeded the planet with it.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* [[Truth in Television]]: Almost everything comes in multiple states, solid, liquid, and vapor, along with non-Newtonian substances such as [[wikipedia:Oobleck|Oobleck]].
▲* However, the solid/liquid/gas phase is generally trivial to interchange. Structural differences (carbon vs graphite vs diamond) are often not trivial to interchange. Isotopes are most often separated out of a naturally occurring mixture. When isotopes need to be made, they often are made from completely unrelated elements, but in some cases are made from another isotope of the same element.
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