X-Ionizer

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X-Ionizer refers to a fictional comic book molecular hardening technology invented by Doctor Heinrich Megala of Project Atom, introduced in the Cary Bates run of the DC Comics published Captain Atom.

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Because of the highly invulnerable nature of the alien metal discovered, the scientists needed some way to cut it in order to perform experiments. One of the scientists had developed a device that would make the molecular lattices of an object knit together in such a way that it became superdense and compact, in effect, making the object nearly indestructible. Also, any edge on an X-Ionized object would attain the sharpness of a molnofilament edge, enabling the object to cut finer and cleaner that the most advanced blade or laser. Once transformed, the object would then be able to cut through virtually any material, including the Dilustel (quantum metal) skin of the Silver Shield which was used to empower Captain Atom, Major Force and possibly Bombshell.^[1]

A mercenary known as the Cambodian wore a suit of X-Ionized armor, and uses an X-ionized katana to cut through Captain Atom's skin in Captain Atom #7.^[2]

X-Ionized depleted Promethium in the DCU is probably analogous to Adamantium in the Marvel Universe.