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'''Tylium''' is a fuel used in both the [[Original Series]] and [[Re-imagined Series]].

==Re-imagined Tylium==
[[Image:HandofGod.jpg|right|thumb|[[Lee Adama|Apollo]] [[Battle for the Tylium Asteroid|destroys a Cylon base]] to win supplies of tylium in "[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]"]]

Tylium is a material used to fuel the propulsion systems of Colonial and [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] spacecraft. Three forms are known of: tylium ore, refined tylium precursor, and refined tylium (the fuel itself).

Typically, tylium ore is mined from asteroids and is apparently not found on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] natively. Large tylium ore deposits can keep fleets fueled for years ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). In its raw form tylium is a relatively fine, powdery substance that is liquefied and refined by [[refinery ship]]s. Care needs to be taken to not introduce impurities into the fuel, which can cause engine malfunctions ([[Dirty Hands]]).

According to Dr. [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] tylium has the following characteristics:

* Tylium ore is rendered inert and unusable when exposed to nuclear radiation
* Refined tylium precursor is more unstable and much easier to ignite than the finished fuel itself
* Refined tylium has a tremendous enthalpy to the order of approximately half a million gigajoules per kilogram, or about 6 times greater than Uranium-235 and 81% that of deuterium fusion.
* A tylium detonation results in no radioactive fallout ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]])

Pure tylium can be easily detonated by a conventional warhead. Moreover igniting fuel lines on spaceships usually quickly result in their loss ([[Miniseries]]). The fuel can also be used to construct improvised mines ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).

==Original Tylium==

Practically nothing on the fuel is mentioned in the Original Series.

In the Original Series, the term was pronounced as "TIE-lee-um" as opposed to "TILL-lee-um" in the Re-imagined Series, as heard in "[[Saga of a Star World]]".

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==Notes==
*[[w:Enthalpy|Enthalpy]] describes the thermodynamic potential of a system (H), and its simplest definition is the sum of the system's internal energy (U), and the product of its pressure (p) and volume (V): ''H = U + pV''.
*The official series web page on the [http://www.scifi.com Sci-Fi Channel] web site incorrectly spells the substance as "'''tyllium'''" in the description of the [[mining ship]] on the ships page. As the Original Series DVD material, as well as labels seen in "[[Dirty Hands]]", show the spelling as "tylium," ''Battlestar Wiki'' contributors should use "tylium" as the correct spelling.

==See Also==
*[[Substances in the Re-imagined Series]], for a discussion on the nature of tylium.
*[[Cylon Refinery]]
*[[Refinery ship]]

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