Hydrogium
Hydrogium Element
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Hn | |
| Information | |
|---|---|
| Name | Hydrogium |
| Discovered | TBA |
| Atomic Number | 1 |
| Atomic Weight | 3 |
| Series | TBA |
| Type | Naturally occuring |
| Density | 0.00013 g/cc |
Hydrogium is a fictional substance which can easily undergo nuclear fusion to produce heavier atoms. The substance occurs naturally in very low mass sub-stellar objects and they are only found on these objects. Hydrogium can also be used as a fuel source for warp engines similar to how deuterium is used as fuel, but because of their rarety they are rarely used as such.
Characteristics
Hydrogium is a very light substance and can therefor start a thermonuclear reaction. They are found in very low mass sub-stellar objects between 8 MJ to 13 MJ, however they are completely absent in more massive stellar and sub-stellar objects as well as in massive planetary objects. Once an object starts fusing hydrogium, they can maintain the reaction for atmost a billion years if they are very conductive to as short as few hundred million years if they are not conductive. The objects conductivity, temperature and mass dictates how long they exhaust their supply of hydrogium, a very low mass, highly conductive object maybe able to continue fusing hydrogium until their supply is depleted in about a billion years. Theoritically, a sub-stellar object may start fusing hydrogium in as early as 10 million years from its birth. The presence of the substance is what differentiates planets from brown dwarfs.
Hydrogium fusing objects tends to glow a reddish brown or scarlet color and emits very dim visible and infrared lights as well as in the ultraviolet spectrum. The flaring process of these objects are not as intense as those with the Type M stars and are rather stable in a stellar standard. Because hydrogium fusing objects only emits very dim visible and infrared lights, they extremely hard to spot and this has resulted to a rather vague understanding of these stellar types. Generally, objects which fuses hydrogium only reach temperatures between 1,700°K to 2,300°K making them rather cold and only able to reach sizes between 80,000 km to 100,000 km. With their small size and cold temperature, their habitable zones are extremely close to the star and may result to the planet being tidally locked which may prove to be a rather big hurdle for humanoid habitation. Once an object depletes its hydrogium supply, they gradually cool down and all their heat and light dissepates and after a few million years they slowly contract releasing more heat until its core is supported by degenerate gas of electrons.
