User:Kermit/Phoron
| Phoron |
| Appearance: purple, crystalline solid; purple gas |
| Phoron on the Periodic Table Symbol: Phr Atomic Number: 162 Group: 14, Period: 8 |
| Physical Properties Molar Mass: 405g/mol Molar Heat Capacity: 200J/(mol*K) |
| Other Properties: Natural Occurence: Unknown/Anomalous Discovered: 2417 |
| Known Deposits: ● Romanovich Cloud, Tau Ceti, Republic of Biesel ● Persepolis, Tabiti, Serene Republic of Elyra ● Medinia, Tabiti, Serene Republic of Elyra ● Sedantis I, Th'stii'stak |
Discovered in 2417 in Tau Ceti’s Romanovich Cloud by the NanoTrasen Corporation science vessel ‘Yosemite’, phoron has irrevocably changed and defined an age of history in the Orion Spur. While initially for the better, being the catalyst for radical advancements in various sectors, it has lately become connoted with struggle, conflict and the oddities of bluespace.
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Properties and Applications
Phoron is a typically purple element that infrequently occurs naturally in either a crystalline form or gaseous state. Due to a multitude of conflicting reasons provided by both new and old scientific communities, phoron appears bound to bluespace, with deposits often occurring in anomalous regions of space – such as the Romanovich Cloud – and with the emblematic use of phoron being in accessing bluespace for the purpose of faster-than-light travel – bluespace gates, bluespace drives.
Sitting far down in the carbon group of the periodic table, phoron also has applications outside of bluespace in medicine, across industries within their electronics, and as a vital component for advanced quantum computing. These more specialist uses outside of as a fuel for bluespace applications often require tailored compounds of phoron:
- Elemental phoron is phoron without any other elements bonded to it; pure phoron. Elemental phoron is necessary and primarily used for all bluespace applications, be it as a fuel in bluespace drives or in microscopic amounts in computer components that interact with bluespace – such as bluespace telecommunication relays. Pure, elemental phoron is the only form of phoron that can safely fuel a bluespace drive.
- Phoron superhydrides are phoron atoms bonded to a disproportionately high number of hydrogen atoms. Different phoron superhydrides can behave differently, with the two larger uses being in organic chemistry and as the only room-temperature superconductor – the advent of room-temperature superconductors vital to more advanced electronics, quantum technologies, particle acceleration, hover technologies, and both medical and scientific imaging.
- Organic phoron is encountered in the medical industry where phoron is expected to enter the body. A singular phoron atom is capable of supporting an abundance of hydrocarbon chains that impact the organic compounds function, whether it be drug delivery or medical materials. Phoron in k’ois and the vaurca body is also found in this state – often saturated by hydrocarbons which allows the phoron to interact with an organic body.
- Phoron, much like nitrogen, can form incredibly stable bonds containing immense energy. For the same reason as nitrogen, compounds such as diphoron and phoron oxides are extremely explosive and often volatile, dwarfing the explosive potential of compounds that rely on nitrogen bonds for their bang. Unfortunately for those who experiment with phoron, these compounds are often the results of poorly calculated or unwise reactions. Where they are stable, they see great use in phoron warheads.
- Isotopes of phoron (phoron with an altered number of neutrons) also play a large role in nuclear chemistry and physics.
In short, phoron is a direct upgrade of carbon, with the same wide varieties of impactful uses that have set the paradigm across the sciences and applied in the fields.
Due to the stability and energy contained in a phoron bond, it is remarkably difficult to cleave phoron off a compound and is thus remarkably difficult to purify a compound of phoron back into its elemental state. This only adds to the difficulty of synthesising phoron (eg. the mass-culture of k’ois to refine organic phoron into elemental phoron; impossible due to the explosive risk of cleaving phoron from any hydrocarbon) and adds to the cost of medical and electrical applications of phoron which require the expenditure of elemental phoron – which has more dire uses in interstellar travel – into a more specialised compound.
The Phoron Scarcity
Due to the exhaustive extraction and refining operations that have been conducted since the discovery of phoron, there now exists a scarcity that deeply impacts the entirety of the Orion Spur, worsening as phoron supplies continue to dwindle to support the status quo.
Currently, the only deposits of phoron have been located within the Republic of Biesel, the Serene Republic of Elyra and reportedly on the abandoned vaurca homeworld of Sedantis. The Stellar Corporate Conglomerate – predominantly supported by and through NanoTrasen Corporation – continues to prospect for new phoron deposits with very limited success – only one relatively small phoron deposit has been identified since the beginning of the phoron crisis, now harvested by the NSS Orchard Moon.
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