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) contended that eludium is the source of many of the peculiarities of cartoon physics. It’s not just for blowing up planets anymore!
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.
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”
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???
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.
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.