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Adamantium is a fictional metal

American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is best known as the substance bonded to the character Wolverine
's skeleton and claws.

First mention

It was first mentioned in

The Avengers #66 (July 1969). Here, it is part of supervillain Ultron's outer shell.[1] In the stories where it appears, the defining quality of adamantium is its indestructibility.[2]

Etymology

The word is a pseudo-Latin

-ium." The adjective adamant has long been used to refer to the property of impregnable, diamond-like hardness, or to describe a very firm/resolute position (e.g. He adamantly refused to leave). The noun adamant describes any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance and, formerly, a legendary stone/rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness and with many other properties, often identified with diamond or lodestone.[3][4] Adamant and the literary form adamantine occur in works such as The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, Gulliver's Travels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Lord of the Rings,[4] and the film Forbidden Planet
(as "adamantine steel").

In 1912, The Metallurgo Syndicate, Ltd., of Balfour House, used "Adamantium" (with a capital 'A') as a product brand when they exhibited "two of their specialities in the shape of Adamantium bronze—a high-class non-corrosive, anti-friction metal..."[5]

The term adamantium occurred in the 1941 short story "Devil's Powder" by

Astounding Stories:[6]

"It was a bullet. It was a small slug of adamantium, the toughest and hardest of all metals..."

All these uses predate the use of adamantium in Marvel's comics.[4]

Fictional history and properties

According to Marvel's comics the components of the alloy are kept in separate batches—typically in blocks of resin—before molding. Adamantium is prepared by melting the blocks together, mixing the components while the resin evaporates. The alloy must then be cast within eight minutes. Marvel Comics' adamantium has an extremely stable molecular structure that prevents it from being further molded even if the temperature is high enough to keep it in its liquefied form. In its solid form, it is described as a dark, shiny gray, like high-grade steel or titanium.[7] It is near-impossible to destroy or fracture in this state, and when molded to a sharp edge, can penetrate most lesser materials with minimal force.[8]

The Marvel Comics character Wolverine discovers an adamantium-laced skull in the villain Apocalypse's laboratory and says it seems to have been there for "eons".[9]

As a key component

Other versions

Secondary adamantium

Marvel’s comic books introduced a variant of "true" adamantium, “secondary adamantium”, to explain why, in certain stories, adamantium was shown to be damaged by sufficiently powerful conventional forces.[18][19] Its resilience is described as far below that of “true“ adamantium.[20][21]

Appearances of secondary adamantium in Marvel comic books include the casing of the supercomputer F.A.U.S.T.,[22] a suit constructed by F.A.U.S.T. and Blastaar for Stilt-Man,[23] a retractable protective dome around Exile Island,[24] and an army of Ultron duplicates.[25]

Ultimate Marvel

In stories published under the Marvel Comics

Sabretooth's four adamantium claws is broken.[26]

Comparison with real materials

Scientist David Evans argued that as adamantium "is considered to be a very dense and indestructible metal" the most suitable real material to model it would be osmium, "the densest known metallic element".[27]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Walker, Karen (February 2010). "Ultron: The Black Sheep of the Avengers Family". Back Issue! (#38). TwoMorrows Publishing: 23–30.
  2. ISBN 978-1465455505
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  3. ^ "adamant - definition of adamant". Oxforddictionaries.com.
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  5. ^ Fowler, William (1912). The Mechanical Engineer, Vol. XXX. The Scientific Publishing Company. p. 520.
  6. ^ Astounding Stories 1941-06: vol. 27 Iss #4. Internet Archive. Penny Publications. June 1941.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^ The Avengers #201–202 (Nov.–Dec. 1980)
  8. ^ The Uncanny X-Men #139 (Nov. 1980)
  9. ^ Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure (1990)
  10. ^ X-Men #98 (April 1976) (w)Chris Claremont
  11. Yu, Leinil Franics (a), "Blood Wedding", Wolverine )(Vol. 2) #126 (July 1998). Marvel Comics
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  12. ^ Captain America #303 (March 1985)
  13. ^ The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #2 (February 1983). Entry: "Captain America", pg. 22
  14. ^ Daredevil #197
  15. Windsor-Smith, Barry (a), "Wounded Wolf", The Uncanny X-Men #205 (May 1986). Marvel Comics
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  16. ^ X-23: Target X
  17. Sotomayor, Chris (col), RS and Comicraft's Wes Abbott (let), Stuart Moore (ed). "Dirty Work" The Punisher, vol. 6, no. 4 (October 2001). New York City: Marvel Comics
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  18. CBR.com. Archived
    from the original on May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2022.
  19. ^ "Adamantium". Marvel.com. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  20. ^ "Adamantium". Marvel Directory.com. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  21. ^ "Adamantium". The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #1 p. 5 (Marvel, August 1985)
  22. ^ Marvel Team-Up #18 (February 1974)
  23. ^ Thor #269 (March 1978)
  24. ^ Super-Villain Team-Up #17 (June 1980)
  25. ^ "This Evil Triumphant!". The Avengers vol.3 #22 (Nov. 1999)
  26. ^ Ultimate X-Men #12 (January 2002)
  27. ^ Evans, David (2015). "Wolverine: The Force Behind His Train Lunge" (PDF). Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics. 4: 90–92. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
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