Movies - Tylium

	Movies - Tylium

Tylium is a fictional ore in both versions of the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica
. It is very rare throughout the known universe, but essential for fueling both human and Cylon space ships, including for the purpose of faster-than-light jumps.

In the original 1978 pilot episode/movie, there are references to mining Tylium, which implies that it is a solid in its natural state; however, fuel consumption meters on the Viper instrument panel behave as if the fuel is liquid, so apparently this is a state change or a suspension to make metering and injection more reliable.

According to the Re-Imagined series, The specific heat of refined Tylium is 5 × 10^{14J/kg (which means 0.556% of its rest mass can be converted). Tylium is unstable and reacts strongly exothermal if sufficiently heated, especially the less stable refined Tylium precursor. It is also mentioned that Tylium will become useless if subjected to strong radiation, although it is not clear whether this is an intrinsic property of Tylium, or that the activation will simply make it impossible to store and handle.

Tylium was featured in the original Battlestar Galactica's pilot, where it was pronounced "Tie-lium", and also in the remake (where it is pronounced "till-ium")- specifically, episode 10, season 1 ("The Hand of God").
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