Klingon word: qech'on Part of speech: noun Definition: lithium Source: qep'a' 32 [2025] _______________________________________________ The request for this word was: "The third element on the periodic table, a soft reactive metal in its pure form. Used by 21st century humans for rechargeable batteries and psychiatric medicine, among other uses. Since the Klingon for dilithium is {cha'puj}, lithium may be {puj}, but this has not been confirmed." PUN: "Lithium (and/or batteries made thereof) have a high chance to 'catch on' fire." (E.T., 7/21/2025) SEE: cha'puj dilithium (n) (lay'tel SIvten, 2/28/2006): There have been a couple of fictitious chemical formulas for dilithium postulated. The simpler is Li2Te, or dilithium telluride. The more complex is Li2Fe7Al2Si8O27. Both are hypothetically possible, but it's unlikely that either actually has the fantastic properties that are ascribed to dilithium in Star Trek ... I seriously doubt, for instance, that dilithium telluride is likely to be able to regulate a matter-antimatter reaction. (For more information on this, read The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss.) ... Dilithium could also refer to a transuranic element that resembles lithium in some way, such as outer shell configuration. 'Dilithium' would have to be a nickname, though, I think, because we have numeric syllables to create arbitrary chemical element names, such as unipentihexium, i.e. element 156. -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons