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Trinium from Stargate SG-1

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Tritanium From Star Trek

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Gundanium Alloy from Gundam Wing

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Titanium-A from Halo

Which is the best super material, and how do they compare?

I'm not particularly impressed by the performances of Titanium-A. I think the advantage had more to do with weight.

Trek's materials are very impressive though, notably in general in their resistance to heat.

As for SG's trinium, I once tried to come with some facts about it. Not easy.
Attempts to compare trinium gouging with plasma torches vs steel:
http://www.starfleetjedi.net/forum/view ... 721#p19721

Lucky wrote:Trinium from Stargate SG-1

VS

Tritanium From Star Trek

VS

Gundanium Alloy from Gundam Wing

VS

Titanium-A from Halo

Which is the best super material, and how do they compare?

Probably between Star Trek and Stargate. Gundanium is good, but nothing compared to those two. Titanium-A isn't all that impressive. Probably better than modern materials, but nothing too great.

Mr. Oragahn wrote:I'm not particularly impressed by the performances of Titanium-A. I think the advantage had more to do with weight.

Trek's materials are very impressive though, notably in general in their resistance to heat.

As for SG's trinium, I once tried to come with some facts about it. Not easy.
Attempts to compare trinium gouging with plasma torches vs steel:
http://www.starfleetjedi.net/forum/view ... 721#p19721

Refined trinium was alloyed with titanium for the SGC's second iris, and alloyed with naqahdah for the construction of Tau'ri ships. Tollans used it extensively for their tech.
Asgards mixed it with carbon.

Trinium-made objects in Stargate are very light, can be very sharp and tough.
In show it was said that trinium, obviously the refined product, was a hundred times stronger and lighter than steel.
What to understand there was complicated though.

Lighter materials theoretically allow to put more of it, that is, to produce thicker armour plates.
I guess the idea is that for an armour plate, its capabilities with one centimeter of trinium would be equivalent to one of 1 meter (100 cm) of homogeneous steel.
In return, a 1 cm thick plate of trinium would be 100 times lighter than a similarly sized plate, made of steel.

Being alloyed probably allows that rather strong material to also benefit from other material's known high heat tolerance levels. Refined naqahdah is remarkably, if not absurdly high, allowing massive transfers of energy. It is also very strong, but particularly heavy.

TRINIUM: 100 times lighter and stronger than steel.
TRITANIUM: 21 times harder than diamond, beyond the Federation's technology to melt (presumably meaning thermally rather than exotic transporter/replicator means.) Doesn't even start to glow at 12,000 degrees Celsius. Can survive a crash into an icy mountain at high velocity.(Voyager Quantum Slipstream drive crash.)

theta_pinch wrote:TRINIUM: 100 times lighter and stronger than steel.
TRITANIUM: 21 times harder than diamond, beyond the Federation's technology to melt (presumably meaning thermally rather than exotic transporter/replicator means.) Doesn't even start to glow at 12,000 degrees Celsius. Can survive a crash into an icy mountain at high velocity.(Voyager Quantum Slipstream drive crash.)

What? Does that mean even a nuke couldn't melt tritanium? o_O

Mr. Oragahn wrote:

theta_pinch wrote:TRINIUM: 100 times lighter and stronger than steel.
TRITANIUM: 21 times harder than diamond, beyond the Federation's technology to melt (presumably meaning thermally rather than exotic transporter/replicator means.) Doesn't even start to glow at 12,000 degrees Celsius. Can survive a crash into an icy mountain at high velocity.(Voyager Quantum Slipstream drive crash.)

What? Does that mean even a nuke couldn't melt tritanium? o_O

Apparently so. Riker did say they couldn't melt tritanium and seeing as they've gone beyond nukes and the Enterprise could expect to survive one even while damaged and it was made out of a duranium tritanium alloy instead of pure tritanium.

On a side note about them having tritanium bulkheads yet not being able to melt it, Riker might have only, been talking about thermal melting; more exotic methods like transporters would be used.