Mineral
An example of trellium-D
Minerals are natural, inorganic, solid compounds with a regularly ordered crystalline structure. (TNG: "Silicon Avatar") Rock is a naturally-occurring solid substance composed of minerals. (TNG: "Thine Own Self") All mineral names, with only a few exceptions, ended with the suffix -ite or -ine.
Mining was the process of extracting minerals from objects like planets and asteroids. (DS9: "Chimera")
Several planets were sources of minerals in the Federation including Earth, Janus VI, Ardana, Capella IV, Coridan, and Elas. (TOS: "Journey to Babel", "Elaan of Troyius")
In the song, "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General", the titular character claimed, "I've information vegetable, animal and mineral." (TNG: "Disaster")
A deficiency in vitamins and minerals could lead to one developing cravings for foods rich in those substances one lacked. (VOY: "Elogium") Bone tissue contained minerals. (VOY: "Scorpion")
Notable minerals[]
- Benamite crystals : could be use to construct an advanced quantum slipstream drive. (VOY: "Timeless")
- Boronite: a rare mineral ore which was used in the synthesis of Omega molecules. (VOY: "The Omega Directive")
- Eisillium: an extremely rare mineral. (ENT: "Breaking the Ice")
- Gallicite : could produce strong electrical currents when metal objects were held nearby. (ENT: "Kir'Shara")
- Kemocite: a key component of the Xindi weapon. (ENT: "The Shipment")
- Pergium: used to generate energy. Janus VI was an important Federation source. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
- Ryetalyn: this rare mineral was the only known cure for Rigelian fever. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
- Topaline: a rare mineral of which Capella IV was a rich source. (TOS: "Friday's Child")
- Time crystals: a rare mineral native to Boreth. (DIS: "Through the Valley of Shadows")
- Trellium: a mineral that was used as insulation against anomalies by ships in the Delphic Expanse. (ENT: "Damage")
- Uridium: an unstable mineral that was used in Cardassian ship construction. (DS9: "Indiscretion")
- Zenite: in 2269, the only known source of this mineral was the planet Ardana. (TOS: "The Cloud Minders")
Mineral life[]
Some lifeforms were mineral-based, such as the Crystalline Entity, the Excalbians, the Horta, the microbrain, the silicon-based lifeform, and the Tholians.
See also[]
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| Antimonium • Archerite • Arcybite • Asbestos • Bakrinium • Bemonite • Benamite • Beresium • Bernicium • Bilitrium • Chrondite • Cormaline • Cormalite • Duranite • Eisillium • Feldomite • Feldspar • Fortanium • Gallicite • Garnesite • Hematite • Hornblende • Ice • Jakmanite • Jevonite • Kelbonite • Kemocite • Ladarium • Magnesite • Murinite • Nitrium • Noranium • Olivine • Paralithium • Pergium • Polyferranide • Promethean quartz • Pyrite • Quartz • Riddinite • Ryetalyn • Salenite • Selenite • Silicate • Silithium • Styrolite • Talgonite • Topaline • Trellium • Trevium • Tricellite • Tricyanate • Tri-magnesite • Tritanium • Tryoxene • Uraninite • Uridium • Vendarite • Vokaya • Zenite |