when's the last time your dilithium crystals were balanced and aligned?
http://www.minrec.org/pdfs/STAR TREK Article.pdf
Dilithium telluride is quite interesting...
DILITHIUM Li2Te
Crystallography
Cubic, pseudo-orthorhombic, space group m3m.
Unit cell data: a 6.504 Å, b 14.55 Å, V 275.13 Å3, Z 12.
Class 222, a:b:c = 0.5271:1:0.5271.
Morphology: Occurs as well-formed to coarse crystals up to fist size. Similar in appearance to quartz. Tabular form thin in one direction along [010].
Twinning: none observed.
Crystal structure: Four coordinate tetrahedral prototypical antifluorite structure.
X-ray powder diffraction data: 3.7400 (80) (111), 3.2517 (50) (200), 2.2993 (80) (220), 1.9609 (100) (311), 1.4920 (50) (331), 1.4542 (50) (420), 1.3275 (50) (422), 1.2516 (50) (333), 1.0993 (50) (531), 0.9107 (50) (711), 0.8696 (50) (642), 0.8472 (75) (553)
General Appearance
Oblong crystals from a few centimeters to approximately 30 centimeters usually free from other minerals. May be partially altered to ilium 629.
Physical Properties
Luster adamantine to resinous; transparent to translucent; white, pale pink, amber brown or bottle brown with a white streak. Triboluminescent. Hardness 5; very brittle, Cleavage [001] distinct; fracture conchoidal. Density: 3.240 g/cm3 (meas.), 3.42 g/cm3 (calc.).
Optical Properties
Uniaxial (+); ω = 1.952-1.984, ε = 1.971-2.010.
Chemical Analytical Data
The ideal formula requires: Li 9.81 %, Te 90.19 % Total 100.00 wt.%.
Localities
Rigel XII, Rigel system. Drema IV. Coridan. Rura Pente, Klingon Empire.Troyius. Vaska. Interplanetary asteroids, Halkon system. Dozaria system. Reman mines on Remus, a planet in the Romulan system.
Occurrence
Silica-poor planetesimals which did not undergo significant parent-body metamorphism during formation.
Relationship to Other Species
Polymorph with neodilithium.
Name
Named after its composition.
Comments
Not IMA Approved. Also referred to as 2(5)6 Dilithium 2

)1 Diallosilicate 1:9:1 Heptoferranide (of Krauss, 1995), Lithium (I) Telluride, Lithium crystal (part). Only knownsubstance other than neodilithium that allows anti-hydrogen to pass through its structure without coming in contact with it.
