Editing Unobtainium (section)

==Science fiction==
[[File:Unobtainium.PNG|thumb|A piece of the valuable "unobtanium" from ''Avatar'']]
Unobtainium was mentioned briefly in David Brin's 1983 book ''[[Startide Rising]]'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brin |first=David |url=http://archive.org/details/startiderising00brin/page/95/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Startide Rising |date=1983 |publisher=Toronto ; New York : Bantam |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-553-23495-4 |pages=95}}</ref> as a material that could be used in making weapons<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elementary, My Dear Watson |url=https://ansible.uk/sfx/sfx194.html |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=ansible.uk}}</ref> and comprising 1% of the core of one of the [[exomoon]]s of the Kthsemenee system.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Unobtainium by David Brin from Startide Rising |url=http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=3939 |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=www.technovelgy.com}}</ref>

Unobtainium is briefly mentioned in Wil McCarthy's ''[[The Collapsium]]'' (2000), where a programmable quantum-technology material called "wellstone" can simulate any conceivable element, including "imaginary substances like unobtainium, impossibilium, and rainbow [[kryptonite]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=SFE: Unobtainium |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/unobtainium |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

In the 2003 film ''[[The Core]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-mar-28-et-turan28-story.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203015954/http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/28/entertainment/et-turan28 | archive-date=2013-12-03 | title=At its center, 'The Core' is a fun ride - Los Angeles Times | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | url-status=live | date=28 March 2003 }}</ref> "Unobtainium" is the nickname of a 37-syllable long tungsten-titanium crystal alloy developed by Dr. Edward "Braz" Brazzelton that is able to absorb the extreme pressure and heat of the [[Internal structure of Earth|Earth's molten core]] and then convert these into usable energy; it's used in building the super resistant outer shell of the ship ''Virgil''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 7, 2023 |title=What scientists love and lament when Hollywood journeys to Earth's core |url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1171384933 |website=NPR Short Wave}}</ref>

In the 2009 film ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]'', Unobtanium is the common name of a rare-earth mineral found exclusively on the [[exomoon]] Pandora, highly prized (and priced) because of its application as a powerful superconductor material.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wilhelm |first=Maria |url=https://archive.org/details/avatarconfidenti00mari/page/4 |title=James Cameron's Avatar: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora |author2=Dirk Mathison |date=November 2009 |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |isbn=978-0-06-189675-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/avatarconfidenti00mari/page/4 4] |url-access=registration}}</ref> Because of its unusual magnetic properties, entire mountains with high concentrations of unobtanium levitate in the atmosphere of Pandora.