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== Alloys ==
Atium may also be alloyed with any of the other Allomatic metals. However the only currently known atium alloy is [[malatium]], an atium-gold alloy. These alloys grant various expanded mental and temporal effects when burned.{{wob ref|4615}}
 
== Around the Cosmere ==
Atium (and its alloys) can be made into weapons, which can be very useful for doing things like resisting [[Shardblade]]s.{{wob ref|13824}}
 
== History ==
 
During the Final Empire, atium was classified as one of the two high metals along with gold and was thought to be only usable by [[Allomancy|Mistborn]]. Though atium Mistings—known as Seers—did exist, due to the scarcity of atium and the [[Lord Ruler]]'s obfuscation, their existence was simply unknown to anyone other than a few select members of the [[Steel Ministry]].{{wob ref|8037}} The Ministry worked diligently to find atium Mistings among the nobility, including by occasionally spiking drinks at balls and causing a disturbance to see if anyone's body reacted by instinctively burning the trace amounts of metal and by slipping any non-Allomancers who join the Ministry a bit of atium and then forcing them through a series of physically-draining rituals that will induce their body to burn the metal, if it can.{{wob ref|6119}} Those found to be Seers were told of their power and often rose through the ranks of the Ministry quickly and given important positions where their power could be used for wondrous feats that would help keep people in line and enhance the Ministry's mystique and perceived power.{{wob ref|8038}}
 
During the time of the [[Final Empire]], atium was mined at the [[Pits of Hathsin]], overseen by the nobles of [[House Venture]].{{book ref|mb1|28}} Most of the atium geodes, however, were secretly opened by [[obligator]]s on staff at the Pits and the atium given to the [[kandra]] to hold in secret, to prevent it from falling into Ruin's hands.{{book ref|mb3|71}} Several days before the fall of the Final Empire, [[Kelsier]] returned to the Pits and used his Allomancy to shatter the crystals that produced atium geodes, stopping atium production for roughly the next three hundred years.{{book ref|mb1|33}}
 
Shortly after the fall of the Final Empire, as the [[Well of Ascension]] grew close to refilling, the [[mist]]s began their efforts to Snap people into Allomancers, though the trauma of this process was initially perceived as a form of attack or sickness. Sixteen percent of those exposed to the mists became Allomancers; most either died or recovered quickly, but one one-sixteenth of those who became Allomancers remained sick for a full sixteen days and became known as [[mistfallen]],{{book ref|mb3|36}} a consequence of the fact that they had become Seers rather than some other form of Misting. These Mistings ultimately proved crucial in Ruin's defeat, burning away the kandra atium cache before Ruin's forces gained access to the [[Trustwarren]] where it had been kept.{{book ref|mb3|81}}
 
=== Post-Catacendre ===▼
After the [[Catacendre]], atium Mistings no longer existed in the same way that they did before.{{wob ref|3000}}
 
=== Atium Mining ===
During the time of the [[Final Empire]], atium could only be mined at the [[Pits of Hathsin]], run by the nobles of [[House Venture]]. Several days before the fall of the Final Empire, because of [[Kelsier]]'s second visit to the Pits, the atium mine is destroyed.
 
▲=== Post-Catacendre ===
[[Waxillium_Ladrian|Wax]] was later able to split [[ettmetal]] using [[trellium]] to create more atium, the effect of this separation is highly explosive, and only produces a small amount of atium.{{book ref|mb7|71}}{{book ref|mb7|15}} Following his discovery, [[kandra]] began repeating the process in order to produce more, under Harmony's orders.{{book ref|mb7|epilogue|4}}
 
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