Xenonite

Item from Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

An Eridian super-material made of pure xenon — the strongest substance either civilization has ever produced, until the cure for extinction learned to eat through it.

Also known as: Xenonite

What They Know

• Pure-xenon compound — supremely strong, hard, and heat-resistant; Eridian super-material
• Primary construction material for the Blip-A and Eridian technology
• Natural Taumoeba cannot penetrate xenonite — but engineered strain 82.5 can
• Human materials science cannot replicate xenonite manufacturing

Connections

• used_by — rocky
• constructs — blip_a
• vulnerable_to — taumoeba

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