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In the 2009 film, Avatar, the events of the film are set in motion by the desire to acquire a rare mineral of unfathomable value known simply as “unobtainium”. The unimaginative, seemingly lazy naming of this mysterious substance drew the ire and scorn of several critics, many of whom seemed blissfully unaware that aeronautical engineers and scientists have been talking about unobtainium since the 1950s. So what is unobtainium and who named it?
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http://www.metalsuppliersonline.com/research/Charts/periodic/113Unobtainium.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/20090424223613/http://md1.csa.com/partners/viewrecord.php?requester=gs&collection=TRD&recid=200114009286MT&recid=A9116974AH&q=towards+unobtainium&uid=788302480&setcookie=yes
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sP7ag1e4tzEC&pg=PA74&dq=unobtanium+SR-71&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAGoVChMI1Yy9rLejxwIVx5gaCh3kjQbd#v=onepage&q=unobtanium%20SR-71&f=false
http://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/3617/the-rare-earth-revolution-has-investors-stampeding-3617.html
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-uno1.htm
http://the-artifice.com/avatar-technology-race-space/
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/jwst-unobtainium.html
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2014-April/132262.html
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/at-the-movies-airworld-unobtainium/
