Unobtainium can also, it is discovered, power a ready made suit.

The name is a play on the fiction element Unobtainium.

Over at the Jeep stand, there is a different sort of unobtainium on display.

The properties of any particular unobtainium depend on the intended use.

After all, a film that comes up with a rare metal called Unobtainium can't be dismissed out of hand.

Later, unobtainium became an engineering term for practical materials that really exist, but are difficult to get.

Now let's consider the tariff for sending a kilo of unobtainium back to Earth.

The concept of unobtainium is often applied flippantly or humorously.

It seems that Ford has some unobtainium for sale at its Frankfurt stand too.

It depicted humans destroying the environment on another planet by mining for a special metal called unobtainium.

The insignia was created using the Unobtainium, which only existed naturally during a short period after the creation of the universe.

As a side note, I still think that calling the precious ore unobtainium was the only truly lame moment in this movie.

The earthlings have come to Pandora to obtain unobtainium.

For instance, unobtainium is described as being stronger than helium, and lighter than air.

They were essentially "unobtainium" 10 years ago.

The military is on Pandora to acquire a mineral called unobtainium (I'm not kidding).

Even its most ardent fans dismiss the plot and writing—the bad guys are on the hunt for a rare ore called unobtainium.

Old-car enthusiasts use "unobtainium" to describe parts that are vanishingly rare or no longer available.

The word unobtainium is derived from unobtainable + -ium (the suffix for a number of elements).

By the 1990s, the term was in wide use, even in formal engineering papers such as "Towards unobtainium new composite materials for space applications."

Orbitals are ribbon-like hoops of a super-strong material (see also unobtainium) reinforced and joined with force fields.

Check the plastic, the fairings are unobtainium new, and if fitted wrongly will crack up and be bloody hard to fix.

It usually refers to a very high-end and desirable product; for instance, in the mountain biking community, "These titanium hubs are unobtainium, man!"

The new planet doesn’t have jungles, giant blue-skinned cats or, as far as we know, the magical mineral unobtainium.

To get the unobtainium, RDA is willing to relocate the natives, who live on top of the richest deposit.