{"id":17849,"date":"2019-02-21T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17849"},"modified":"2019-02-21T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:37:08","slug":"handwavium-balonium-wishalloy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/02\/21\/handwavium-balonium-wishalloy\/","title":{"rendered":"handwavium, balonium, wishalloy"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>It appears that nobody has written about the names of fictional elements (or other such matters as particles, alloys, etc) on this blog before. I happened to be looking up <i>impervium<\/i> and <i>unobtanium<\/i> recently, and came across <i>handwavium<\/i>, <i>balonium<\/i> and <i>wishalloy<\/i>. These are excellent words, all new to me, and in a different category, I would have said, than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_fictional_elements,_materials,_isotopes_and_subatomic_particles\">fictional materials such as dilithium, mithril or ice-nine<\/a>.\r\n<p>I had also not known that <i>adamant<\/i> (or <i>adamantine<\/i>) was essentially Classical impervium, being a fictional or theoretical substance that was named for embodying resistance to damage. Chaucer uses it\u2014I\u2019m sure Chaucer would have used some relative of <i>balonium<\/i>, too, which would probably then have entered Modern English as a classy, poetic and somewhat archaic form of bullshit.\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, it seems unlikely that there will be any phony subatomic particles more amusingly named than the &#8220;real&#8221; ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17852,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17849\/revisions\/17852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}