trans-mineral properties?

[swarm_sadist (OP)]

Anyone know what the physical properties of the trans-newtonian metals are?

Could also use the Sorium specific impulse.

[HaliRyan]

Don't think any were ever decided on, other than Duranium = hard, Sorium = boom, etc.

They're just handwavium excuses. 

[OokamiNya]

I kind of imagine them to not have any fixed physical properties, since they are trans-newtonian, after all, so they don't obey our normal laws of physics.

[Erik L]

The only stuff Steve has mentioned about the is which component/facility requires them.

[Nathan_]

Sorium doesn't really have a specific impulse, it propels a ship only when the engines are turned on, so it might as well be an energy source for an inertialess drive. You'll have to invent your own ideas for what precisely each of the minerals does, though a good rule of thumb is to take an existing application and magic it better.

[chuckles73]

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,4329.msg42917.html#msg42917

As per Newtonian Aurora.
Sorium is the fuel for many types of engines.

The engines have Isp, not the Sorium itself (or rather, the engines have thrust, fuel consumption and acceleration). ie you're burning Sorium for Nuclear Pulse Engines the same as you're burning it for Internal Confinement Fusion.

[Nathan_]

"The only stuff Steve has mentioned about the is which component/facility requires them."
We can kind of infer what is being done with each mineral via the devices/facilities that they build.

[Erik L]

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,4329.msg42917.html#msg42917

As per Newtonian Aurora.
Sorium is the fuel for many types of engines.

The engines have Isp, not the Sorium itself (or rather, the engines have thrust, fuel consumption and acceleration). ie you're burning Sorium for Nuclear Pulse Engines the same as you're burning it for Internal Confinement Fusion.

One could assume Sorium is a gas based on it being the only mineral available on gas giants.

[xeryon]

One could assume Sorium is a gas based on it being the only mineral available on gas giants.

and makes me a sad Auroreer that my geological survey teams can not improve the quantity and accessibility of for that reason.

I don't have Aurora in from of me but:

Duranium
Neutronium
Corbomite
Tritanium
Boronide
Mercassium
Sorium
Uridium
Corundium
Gallicite

I always assumed Duranium was just a metal alloy.  Similar to steel, titanium or aluminum.  This is why everything requires it.
Sorium was a fuel for ships and I don't think used anywhere else.  Maybe not the go boom kind like a petroleum product, but more like a radioactive element used to fuel nuclear reactions.  In that regards it is unique that it is stored in liters.  I suppose you could RP that it was liquified in refinement to make it easier to handle.
Corundium is used in mine and auto mines, is it used for anything else?  My thought was that the drill heads for the mines use it.  For that reason the initial mineral requirement should have been less to build the mine and it should have been a consumable which required regular deliveries of the material to keep mining operations running.  But oh well.

The rest I don't recall off the top of my head. 
Gallicite is primarily used for shipyard construction, yes?  To me that makes me think that most of the newtonian elements are toxic or dangerous for human or conventional materials to handle in a raw state and that the gallicite is used as a shielding agent in manufacturing equipment until the completed product is done being manufactured.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

Sorium isn't actually stored in liters - only the sorium-derived fuel is.  It's also used in the construction of jumpdrives, so a radioactive or otherwise weirdly energetic element makes as much sense as anything. 

Neutronium is what you're thinking of with regard to shipyards. Gallicite is used almost entirely for engines of all types. 

[xeryon]

Duranium - Metallic alloy
Neutronium - Inert - newtonian element shielding/handling material.
Corbomite
Tritanium
Boronide
Mercassium
Sorium - Energetic solid, when refined can be liquified as a fuel source
Uridium
Corundium - Mining and extraction agent
Gallicite - Engines - heat shielding or radioactivity containment?

[Person012345]

I'd prehaps venture that sorium could exist either as a gas or solid. I'm thinking in gas giants it would exist as a gas, but when found on a normal planet could form compounds of some sort and become solid.

[Erik L]

I'd prehaps venture that sorium could exist either as a gas or solid. I'm thinking in gas giants it would exist as a gas, but when found on a normal planet could form compounds of some sort and become solid.

Why would it need to be a solid on normal planets? There are gasses that are mined, or mined as a by-product of other mining operations.

[Person012345]

Why would it need to be a solid on normal planets? There are gasses that are mined, or mined as a by-product of other mining operations.

It wouldn't necessarily have to be. Just could be.

[xeryon]

Duranium - Metallic alloy
Neutronium - Inert - newtonian element shielding/handling material.
Corbomite
Tritanium
Boronide
Mercassium
Sorium - Energetic gas, when refined can be liquified as a fuel source
Uridium
Corundium - Mining and extraction agent
Gallicite - Engines - heat shielding or radioactivity containment?