# Favorite Fictional Chemical? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866 "2003-05-08T09:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/81 "2003-05-09T18:30:35Z")
General Products #4 (although I suppose #1-#3 deserve honorable mentions). I’d hate to see how much space a mole of #4 would take up, though. 😃 **eunoia** , I recently (in this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177531)) contended that eludium is the source of many of the peculiarities of cartoon physics. It’s not just for blowing up planets anymore! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gumbercules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gumbercules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gumbercules)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/82 "2003-05-09T18:31:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*Kurt Vonneguts’ **Ice-9** from _Cat’s Cradle_. \*\* Oddly enough there really is such a thing as Ice-nine. [Phase diagram of water](http://www.sbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/83 "2003-05-09T20:36:41Z")
Spider-Man’s web fluid. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/84 "2003-05-09T22:45:13Z")
**Neotraxin** An all purpose wonder drug that cured just about everything from **The Six Million Dollar Man** , in the alien Bigfoot episode. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/85 "2003-05-10T02:55:49Z")
If Neotraxin was such a marvelous wonderdrug, how come Sandy Duncan had to keep taking dose after dose of the stuff just to stay alive? ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/86 "2003-05-10T02:59:33Z")
Cheers, Optihut!! make one for me, too. Did someone mention Eludium Fozdex, the shaving cream atom? ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/87 "2003-05-10T03:19:02Z")
**Space Mead** , HPL’s creation, allows you able to travel through space without air. Of course you will need to find a byakhee… Another chemical is in **The King in Yellow** , in the story _The Mask_. Turns any living thing into stone when immersed into it, while a ray of sunlight suddenly shines upon it. The vines and the heart of the creature gives off a different shine. After three (or four?) years the creature returns back to its original state. ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/88 "2003-05-10T04:44:09Z")
Whatever was in Dr. Jeckyll’s potion. Mary Poppins’s multi-flavor cough syrup. Everlasting Gobstoppers! ---
**Author:** ![captainQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@captainQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/captainQwark)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/89 "2003-05-10T20:43:26Z")
This maybe stretching things a bit, but a person on a christian message board said that scientists should come up with vaccine against Homosexuality, and the poster dubbed it “homocillin” ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/90 "2003-05-11T02:11:25Z")
Fake Matter - (Anvil Of Stars) Greg Bear Heavy Water - The Original Flash (Jay Garrick) * * * Sci-fi worldbuilding at [http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html](http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html) ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/91 "2003-05-11T03:31:45Z")
What was the drug called in **Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man** , _Blue Ice_? “You put it in your eyes and it tells you lies”. Imagine hitting that while sipping moloko plus synthemesc with a little melange? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/92 "2003-05-13T00:02:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by eburacum45 \* > **Heavy Water - The Original Flash (Jay Garrick)** Waaaaaaaait a minute … heavy water isn’t fictional! ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/93 "2003-05-13T00:40:19Z")
This heavy water was fictional- it made you go fast- er … or is that just a fictional quality assigned to a mysterious but real compound? oh well, you are probably right * * * Sci-fi worldbuilding at [http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html](http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html) ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/94 "2003-05-13T00:42:21Z")
In that case the New Accelerator (by H.G.Wells) is properly fictional and does the same thing. * * * Sci-fi worldbuilding at [http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html](http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html) ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/95 "2003-05-13T00:44:40Z")
It’s not _exactly_ fictional, having real components, but… “Remember how we always thought there was no way to kill a toon? Well, the judge found a way. Turpentine, acetone, benzene. He calls it **the Dip**.” ---
**Author:** ![born\_too\_late](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@born\_too\_late](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/born_too_late)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/96 "2003-05-13T01:39:54Z")
I’ll second the vote for the Pangalactic Gargleblaster. What was the name of that drug from ‘Brain Candy’? ---
**Author:** ![born\_too\_late](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@born\_too\_late](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/born_too_late)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/97 "2003-05-13T01:46:05Z")
mmm…Gleemonex. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/98 "2003-05-13T02:32:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sciguy \* > \*\*A Universal solvent is handy to get out those nasty stains…along with the carpet…and the floor…and the basement…and walls…the neighbors… It’s a bugger to package, though. \*\* No prob…put it inside an Alien and call it **molecular acid**. Simply lead him to whatever you want to clean/dissolve and make a little pinhole to let out as much as you need. P.S. Did anyone ever find out what an Alien’s skin is made of??? ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/99 "2003-06-26T02:34:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\*The virus was called … brace yourself, here … _ **the Wild Card virus.** _ \*\* Actually it’s “Xenovirus Takis A”. It was called the “Wild Card” virus by humans because of the effects, but Tsienne (Dr. Tachyon) who, along with some other members of the Ilkazam house, invented it referred to it as “Xenovirus Takis A” throughout the series. On Takis it was commonly referred to as the “Enhancer” project. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866/100 "2003-06-26T03:29:47Z")
I was going to say _Ice-9_, too, but of course, it is later than I think. Which reminds me-- nobody’s mentioned “Oxychloride X” from Arch Obler’s inimitable radio program _Lights Out_. A universal solvent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-chemical/173866.md?page=6)