History Main / StatesOfPhlebotinum

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* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': the PhilosophersStone comes in solid and liquid forms. TruthInTelevision, as that was believed to be one of the properties of the philosopher's stone.

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* ''Franchise/{{Mistborn}}'': It's eventually revealed that the [[AmplifierArtifact liquid in the Well of Ascension]], the metal found near it which [[spoiler: [[SuperEmpowering makes people into allomancers]]]], and the gaseous [[spoiler: mist which can [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening activate latent allomany in people]]]] are all different states of the same phlebotinum. Unusually, this isn't revealed until part way through the final book of the trilogy - and indeed the characters themselves don't find out until the epilogue.

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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': started out with naquadah as a solid material of the Stargate, and running through the blood of Goa'uld. Later liquid naquadah was added as a small weapons ammo, then the refined, denser weapons-grade naquadah, and heavy liquid naquadah for a weapons satellite system. Also branched off this trope into naquadria, a much more powerful, yet inherently unstable and radioactive version; the ToxicPhlebotinum of the series. The Asgard flagship is mentioned as being of a "naquadah-trinium-carbon alloy" too. Essentially they played this trope almost as an ongoing "Phlebotinum States On Demand".

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* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'': Protodermis generally comes in liquid, solid, and organic forms. Once raw liquid Protodermis is purified in Ga-Metru, it goes to Ta-Metru to be heated and then cooled to harden in ordered to be used in building and crafting as solid Protodermis.

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* Phazon in ''VideoGame/{{Metroid Prime|Trilogy}}'' games comes in liquid and solid forms (the solid form seems to also sometimes be crystalline and sometimes for veinlike growths). The liquid form is unstable and explosive. Additionally the Impact Crater in the first game contains "orange phazon" (it's never given an actual name in the game, but it looks like phazon except it's orange) which is much more radioactive.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries'' has Tiberium, which appears in several different states and forms.
** The most iconic form is [[GreenRocks a greenish crystalline substance]] which "grows" section by section, gradually taking over whatever it touches. There are also blue crystal forms that [[StuffBlowingUp are highly explosive]], and a liquid form that is insanely volatile and be used to make [[FantasticNuke superweapons]]. And then there are the stranger forms the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Scrin]] can come up with, like the Corruptor's less volatile, more [[TheCorruption bio-reactive]] liquid state.

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* In ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', Energon is normally a liquid, but in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', there's a naturally-occurring crystal Energon. The crystal form is notably more radioactive than the liquid form.
** Not so natural, as it's implied that the Vok created that Energon and seeded the planet with it.

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* Though not to the extent of Newtonian states of matter. Oil in it's unrefined, crude form is hardly usable but by heating it and putting it through a fractioning column, you derive multiple products that make up the cornerstone in, well, everything. The heavy bitumen at the bottom? Roads and roofs. The petroleum near the top is how you get to work in the morning (unless you take the bus which is several steps down), or you can use it as part of a gel to [[MundaneUtility treat cuts, dry skin, rashes, etc.]]. No wonder people are [[NoBloodForPhlebotinum willing to spill blood for it]].

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