Minerals valuable to high TLs only??

[womble]

If you want to introduce real sicence, given an allotrope of metallic Aluminium which is transparent, you might find that its surface would oxidise in the same way as the silvery stuff with which we're familar does. That whitish coating is harder than the metal, very easy to colour, and can be very thin, so you could easily tint aluminium windows.

 

[Straybow]

How low tech are you talking? For example, Platinum wasn't isolated until rather late (19th cen?), and for generations tin mines had been leaving Platinum in their tailings.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Cast thread Resurrect!!!

Originally posted by Ran Targas:
Neutronium is a material we have atleast postulated on, unlike Handwavium and Transparent Aluminum.

Well, that just shows how little you know, smarty pants! Check this out! Now, if we could just talk to our computers....

 

[veltyen]

Translucent Sapphire!

What will they think of next!

 

[far-trader]

Keyboard. How quaint.

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HEYYYYY! How come that isn't the forumula for transparent aluminum?! It worked for Scotty

 

[archhealer]

I know many of us hate to throw in real life stuff into traveller (Mostly cause it messes up the TL tables when compared to earth

) but what about rare Carbon compounds? Many primitive cultures use carbon mostly for fuel by burning it, but many carbon compounds are very useful in industry and such, and are often very hard to synthesise (At least when compared to just finding them).

 

[Ran Targas]

Originally posted by Fritz88:
Cast thread Resurrect!!!
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Ran Targas:
Neutronium is a material we have atleast postulated on, unlike Handwavium and Transparent Aluminum.

Well, that just shows how little you know, smarty pants! Check this out! Now, if we could just talk to our computers....

</font>[/QUOTE]Fritz, I will have you know I am wearing a pair of smarty pants right now!

I've recently become educated in the application of aluminium oxides as glass substitutes so I will retract my comments on transparent aluminium. It really seems Gene Roddenberry was gifted with prescience; except, of course, when picking the guardians of his legacy.

But I stand firmly on my statement about Handwavium; pure poppy-cock, I say!