empirical molarity by measuring the percentage of material lost in the reaction.
Better if we examine the weights if the source wafers, and of the finished craft to better evaluate the reactivity.
Lots of guesswork, but part of the periodic table's power is its predictive qualities. Knowing how reactive something is helps constrain what period in the table.
Sadly, without also measuring the slag to have known reactant molar weights, empirical derivation will never be exact.
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Adamantine's molar mass is given in the raws. It's the same as iron.
It's the same as iron![/quote]
If adamantine has the same molar mass as iron, then it has the same atomic weight as iron, or else the number of particles wouldn't match the avagadro constant.
This means that an atom of adamantine weighs 56 amu.
To convert amu to grams, we multiply the amu by 1.66053886x10^(-24).
About the closest solid substance in the range up to atomic number 56 (the highest you can go with that atomic weight) with a density ratio that would work out in the ballpark of adamantium, (whan adjusted for the lower mass) is indium.
The density of indium is 7.31 g/cm^3, and it has an atomic mass of 114.8. This means there are 38346563106925887446277.3 atoms per cm^3 of indium.
If we substitute a molecule with the same atomic mass as iron, and give it the electronic configuration of indium so that it has the same proportion of atoms per cm^3, we get a substance with a density of 3.565 g/cm^3.
This is 356.5g/m^3.
This element would be a radical isotope of indium, would be radically unstable radiologically, and would not have the mechanical properties adamantium has. (Indium is soft, melts easily, etc.)
Thus, I can only conclude that adamantium has some kind of exotic quantum mechanical property which limits how well it interacts with the higgs field, because ordinary matter does not yeild even a theoretical substance with adamantine's properties.
(That is to say, it is para-gravitational effects, similar to "element zero" from mass effect.)
Its's companion material, slade, would appear to interact the other way with a similar mechanism, exhibiting supergravitational effects.
This means that a value like molar weight has no meaning, since the gravitational constant is not obeyed within the material's nucleus. This could also explain its unique properties, in that it would partially repell the gravitational fields of any matter it came into contact with. (Compare to paramagnetism, such as found in bismuth and graphene.) This also applies to interractions involving inertia, which is tied proportionally to mass.
Study of the material could theoretically yeild ftl propulsion (eek!)
Conversely, slade could possibly be used to create artificial gravity.
If we assume that this is what is happening, then adamantine would likely be one of the hypothetical "island of stability" transuranic elements, and without the reality distortion field, would weigh more than solid plutionium.