Name that Mineral!

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    1. White - Xyrellium
    2. Black - Caciyite
    3. Purple - Miratite
    4. Blue - Strainium
    5. Green - Avium
    6. Yellow - Solarite
    7. Orange - Selocissium
    8. Red - Rubicicium
    For the crystals, of course.
     
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    don't care bout much but I love Miratite for Purple, and if it's not too much, Raibenite for blue would be cool :)
     
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    I like "~ite" for cristals and "~ium" for minerals, but would also like "~gen" for elements/minerals.

    But the names are not my favs. I like something like "Dilizium", "Naquadrium", "Diligen", "Naquagen" or just "Yelgen", "Bluegen", ...
     
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    ORE:
    1. White - Alohnium (anything that sounds 'angelic' or pure)
    2. Black - Tartrite or Carbus
    3. Purple - Rosite (or 'flowery' name)
    4. Blue - Aquide
    5. Green - Porpheria or Acidus ('toxic' names)
    6. Yellow - Sunflare
    7. Orange - No idea
    8. Red - No idea, but something 'angry' sounding.
    I know they sound like bad Pokemon OC's, I more like the idea of having real-life minerals but that is best left for S.E.
     

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    I rather think about toxic when I see purple, because a tree is not toxic, purple very rare in earth's nature (outside the water).

    I don't want any mineral/ore be called Aquide, because Aqua=Water=H2O is not an ore. this is very confusing/weird.
     
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    I've got a few ideas
    1. White crystal - Spectrite
    2. Black crystal - Anti-Spectrite
    3. Purple rock - Puttium
    4. Blue crystal - Methite (Crystal meth-ite?...)
    5. Orange rock/crystal - Melangeium (The spice MUST flow!)
    6. Red Rock - Crimsium
    spectrite and anti-spectrite really sounds good imho
     
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    1. White - Platinum (metal) Condensed Star Dust (crystal)
    2. Black - Thorium (metal) Crystallized Carbon (crystal)
    3. Purple - Active Aluminium (metal) Dark Quarts (crystal)
    4. Blue - Sapphire Silver (metal) Sapphire (crystal)
    5. Green - Emerald Chromium (metal) Emerald (crystal)
    6. Yellow - Gold (metal) Crystallized Sulphur (crystal)
    7. Orange - Copper (metal) Crystallized Lava (crystal)
    8. Red - Active Chromium (metal) Ruby (crystal)
    Personally I don't like completely random names like Quantagen, because it makes it so you can't relate to it in real life.
     
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    Ore/Metal:
    1. White - Neutronium Ore/Neutronium
    2. Black - Infused Hematite/Fusion Iron
    3. Purple - Resbalite/Resbarium
    4. Blue - Samariite/Tominitic Samarium
    5. Green - Cidanium Ore/Cidanium
    6. Yellow - Corite/Corium
    7. Orange - Adronite/Adronium
    8. Red - Hexalithite/Hexalithium
    Crystal:
    1. White - Neutrine
    2. Black - Kupurium
    3. Purple - Calbirite
    4. Blue - Schemaxite or Schemazite
    5. Green - Arizite
    6. Yellow - Energized Sulfurite
    7. Orange - Cirdine
    8. Red - Schinite
    Neutronium Ore/Neutronium

    nutronium is a metal from stargate, cool name just wondering if might be copyrighted under the seires
     
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    I got one named after me! I feel special :D

    Here are some of my suggestions, all based on Latin words that I felt were somehow related to the colour:
    White - Lucemite ("light" = "lucem")
    Black - Obscuromite ("dark" = "obscuro")
    Purple - Arcanite (one of the possible translations of "mystery", being "arcanum")
    Blue - Caelirium ("sky" = "caelum")
    Green - Viridium ("green" = "viridis". I tried "nature", "grass" and "plant" but they were all too obviously translations)
    Yellow - Felicitium ("happiness" = "felicitas". Yellow has historical links with wealth, happiness and freedom)
    Orange - Delorite ("amusement" = "delectationis". Orange has historical links with amusement, the unconventional and activities/events)
    Red - Perinum (so tempted to just go with "ignite", but I resisted :p It's based on "danger" = "periculum")

    If there's anyone here that actually knows Latin, I sincerely apologise for any mis-translations. Blame Google Translate, I just know that the rights words from Latin can look really awesome, so I used Latin as a base for all my words :p
    FINALLY someone who has used latin and has some no joke ideas. Great suggestions. Obscuro is I hide, perhaps you should use the Infinitive!!! :)
     

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    Neutronium Ore/Neutronium

    nutronium is a metal from stargate, cool name just wondering if might be copyrighted under the seires
    Star Trek uses forms of "Neutronium" (Usually Carbon Neutronium) as well, so no.
     
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    +1 for Schematite

    - Lolium
    - Roflite
    - Omgen
    - Fuzzite
    - Obtanium (Unobtanium would be illogical)
    - Iumium
    - Titite
    - Omnomite
    - Orite
    - Minemium
     

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    White- Iridium (Rare, used in some high-output parts, but mostly a money ore.)
    Black- Tungsten (Used in regular hull, doors, and basic machinery.)
    Purple- Manganese (Used in hard hull, can be combined with normal hull to make hard.)
    Blue- Zinc (Used in shield blocks and heat-resistant hull (for diving into suns?))
    Green- Torbernite (Used in antimatter cannons and power tanks)
    Yellow- Uranium (used in power blocks and minelayer blocks)
    Orange- Copper (Used in ship parts, computers, and various non-hull blocks)
    Red- Ruby (Used in lasers and other beam based weaponry)


    Crystallized forms can be sold for extra money, or smelted in a furnace to make two of the regular ores.

    (And these are all real ores, so no copyright infringement risks, and you can add more ores later!)

    Also just realized- Ores are a rainbow! :D
     
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    This is my first post on the forums but I guess there is a first time for everything.

    Assuming the green mettle has an earthy and strong type of property. I think its name should be Olvitav. It doesn't end in an ium or ite but I think its overall name sounds like a strong green type of mettle. It also roles of one's tong easy and is not hard to pronounce.
     

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    I got one named after me! I feel special :D

    Here are some of my suggestions, all based on Latin words that I felt were somehow related to the colour:
    White - Lucemite ("light" = "lucem")
    Black - Obscuromite ("dark" = "obscuro")
    Purple - Arcanite (one of the possible translations of "mystery", being "arcanum")
    Blue - Caelirium ("sky" = "caelum")
    Green - Viridium ("green" = "viridis". I tried "nature", "grass" and "plant" but they were all too obviously translations)
    Yellow - Felicitium ("happiness" = "felicitas". Yellow has historical links with wealth, happiness and freedom)
    Orange - Delorite ("amusement" = "delectationis". Orange has historical links with amusement, the unconventional and activities/events)
    Red - Perinum (so tempted to just go with "ignite", but I resisted :p It's based on "danger" = "periculum")

    If there's anyone here that actually knows Latin, I sincerely apologise for any mis-translations. Blame Google Translate, I just know that the rights words from Latin can look really awesome, so I used Latin as a base for all my words :p

    FINALLY someone who has used latin and has some no joke ideas. Great suggestions. Obscuro is I hide, perhaps you should use the Infinitive!!! :)
    One, what's so wrong with joke suggestions?

    And two, aside from Lucemite, Viridium, and Obscuromite/Obscurite/Obscurusite/whatever, people might not remember these. Personally, i'd remember Arcanite because purple is used in magic so much ("arcane" has taken on a connotation of magic), and Caelirium because of a Minecraft mod (The Caelum dimension, an Aether clone which 'died' a while ago; back during 1.2.5 I think), but others might not...

    (That said, my suggestions aren't very easy either, for the most part.)
     
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    Orange- Copper (Used in ship parts, computers, and various non-hull blocks)
    You noob! You can't learn to use 24th century technology? :D

    StarGate, StarTrek, everybody uses crystals for computers.
    If you detonate an EMP bomb (similar to atomic bombs) several kilometres above the atmosphere, gamma rays turn to EMP waves in the upper atmosphere layers.
    You can knock out the whole United-States' economy with such a thing.

    Power-transformators burn out, all computers die, water pumps and trucks for food supply will stop working...
    Las-Vegas will have no water-supply in a few days.​
    And you will use that technology close to EM-sun-flares, EM-weaponry, ...?

    Back to topic: I like Latin names, but I really wanna have consistent endings on names for crystals and different for ores.
     
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    One, what's so wrong with joke suggestions?

    And two, aside from Lucemite, Viridium, and Obscuromite/Obscurite/Obscurusite/whatever, people might not remember these. Personally, i'd remember Arcanite because purple is used in magic so much ("arcane" has taken on a connotation of magic), and Caelirium because of a Minecraft mod (The Caelum dimension, an Aether clone which 'died' a while ago; back during 1.2.5 I think), but others might not...

    (That said, my suggestions aren't very easy either, for the most part.)
    Firstly I would like to point out that there is nothing wrong with joke suggestions, they are nice and good to have on a post. I was just making a point that I liked his post, as it used words that derived from latin (as latin Doesn't have colour words only similes e.g like the sky (blue, caelum)). Also none of the words that, in the end shall be used to describe the minerals, shall be easy but you don't have to memorise the names you just have to recognise them, or you could just recognise them by colour, these names are just to get rid of the ones like awsomite and replace them with cool ones for the shops and Inventory.
    p.s do you find these easy to memorise?
    1. White - Xyrellium
    2. Black - Caciyite
    3. Purple - Miratite
    4. Blue - Strainium
    5. Green - Avium
    6. Yellow - Solarite
    7. Orange - Selocissium
    8. Red - Rubicicium

    1. White - Neutronium Ore/Neutronium
    2. Black - Infused Hematite/Fusion Iron
    3. Purple - Resbalite/Resbarium
    4. Blue - Samariite/Tominitic Samarium
    5. Green - Cidanium Ore/Cidanium
    6. Yellow - Corite/Corium
    7. Orange - Adronite/Adronium
    8. Red - Hexalithite/Hexalithium
    Crystal:
    1. White - Neutrine
    2. Black - Kupurium
    3. Purple - Calbirite
    4. Blue - Schemaxite or Schemazite
    5. Green - Arizite
    6. Yellow - Energized Sulfurite
    7. Orange - Cirdine
    8. Red - Schinite
    these aren't my names, I am just making a point that all names are had to memorise.
     
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    White- Iridium (Rare, used in some high-output parts, but mostly a money ore.)
    Black- Tungsten (Used in regular hull, doors, and basic machinery.)
    Purple- Manganese (Used in hard hull, can be combined with normal hull to make hard.)
    Blue- Zinc (Used in shield blocks and heat-resistant hull (for diving into suns?))
    Green- Torbernite (Used in antimatter cannons and power tanks)
    Yellow- Uranium (used in power blocks and minelayer blocks)
    Orange- Copper (Used in ship parts, computers, and various non-hull blocks)
    Red- Ruby (Used in lasers and other beam based weaponry)


    Crystallized forms can be sold for extra money, or smelted in a furnace to make two of the regular ores.

    (And these are all real ores, so no copyright infringement risks, and you can add more ores later!)

    Also just realized- Ores are a rainbow! :D
    no offence flying, but these minerals have already been discovered, i realise where you are coming from, but its a bit TOO realistic, and even though realism is good in small amounts, we don't want this game to become too realistic, i mean it is a space game where you can build massive ships have dodecahedron planets and anti matter cannons!!! :)
    anyway, just my opinion.
     
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