
A pile of the Bendezium material in the Phazon Mines.
Bendezium is a very strong substance that can only be destroyed by a Power Bomb. It has a high melting point and is extremely dense, making it a popular building material. It was originally mentioned by name in Metroid Prime, but it may also be represented in some games by Power Bomb Blocks. A material with similar properties, Denzium, appeared only in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and acted as a replacement in the game for Bendezium. The only named material harder than Bendezium is Maldium, which appears in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and can only be destroyed by Samus's ship's missiles.
Bizarrely it takes two vastly different forms. A rock like ore that blocks Hatches and as panes of glass.
Contents
Locations[edit | edit source]
Tallon Overworld[edit | edit source]
Chozo Ruins[edit | edit source]
Magmoor Caverns[edit | edit source]
Phendrana Drifts[edit | edit source]
Phazon Mines[edit | edit source]
- Security Access A
- Mine Security Station
- Elite Research
- Ore Processing
- Maintenance Tunnel
- Phazon Processing Center
- Omega Research
- Ventilation Shaft
- Omega Research
- Central Dynamo
- Metroid Quarantine A
- Phazon Mining Tunnel
Official data[edit | edit source]
Official site[edit | edit source]
kreuger displacement: 98.75
atomic weight: 65.332
vacuum potential: 0
origin: Commonly found on planets with crusts containing 85% or more Urthic ore.

Shore Tunnel scan
"Bendezium is an extremely dense solid. High melting points and stable atomic structure make Bendezium a popular building material throughout the galaxy. Bendezium is nearly indestructible, but in laboratory tests it has demonstrated a vulnerability to concussive detonations."
Scans[edit | edit source]
- Security Access A
- "Structural integrity of Bendezium gate is low."
- Mine Security Station
- "Microfractures present in Bendezium blast gate."
- Elite Research
- "Unit ident-code EPG-8642, batch 23, field designation 'Elite Pirate Alpha.' Stasis tank reinforced with Bendezium alloy plates."
- Ore Processing
- "Rotation Control Unit blocked by partial collapse of Bendezium wall."
- Computer screen in Elite Control (room contains no Bendezium)
- "Replacement of standard hatch covers continues. Steel covers will be replaced with Cordite and Bendezium covers in two deca-cycles."
- Ventilation Shaft
- :"There is clear air flowing from this Bendezium grate."
- Metroid Quarantine A
- "Bendezium within wall is unstable."
- Phazon Mining Tunnel
- :"High levels of Bendezium present in object."
- Life Grove Tunnel and Life Grove
- "Analysis of wall shows rampant weakness due to severe water saturation. Large traces of Bendezium detected."
- Furnace
- "The Bendezium portion of the floor here is weak. Structural weakness due to supersaturation of water."
- Warrior Shrine
- "Bendezium portion of area unstable."
- Shore Tunnel
- "Scan shows stress fractures in Bendezium frame."
- Geothermal Core
- "Collapsed Bendezium wall section is structurally unsound."
- Workstation Tunnel
- "Unstable Bendezium debris blocking path."
Maintenance Tunnel hint[edit | edit source]
"A rock slide has blocked off this passage. Analysis indicates traces of Bendezium."
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Substances | |
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Hazardous | Acid (Beta/Fake) • Acid Rain • Afloraltite • Dark Water • Fire • Fuel Gel • Lava (Fake/Scalding-hot) • Phazon • Purple liquid |
Gases | Dark vapor • Industrial-grade pesticide • Meta-viprium gas • Nohadin gas • Noxious gasses • Poison gas • Talvania Gas |
Destructible | Barnacle-like material • Bendezium • Brinstone • Cordite • Denzium • Frigidite • Glass • Grobnite • Ice • Maldium • Meltable Metal • Metroid webs • Radion • Sandstone • Talloric Alloy • Vegetation • Zebetite Kelbium and Zafrite |
Phazon | Red • Crystal • Black Crystal • Mass • Ore • Elite Nutrient Mix • Strain Vertigo • Phazite (Red) • Concentrated |
Crystals | Ammolite/Witherite Shards • Black Phazon • Crystallized Fuel Gel • Crystals • Dark Sentinel • Lift • Liftvine • Light • Minerals • Phazon • Red magma • Sentinel |
Ore | Urthic • Phazon |
Miscellaneous | Invisible platform • Jovian steel • Liquid Resource • Liquid solution • Sand Vaccine "Metroid" • Waste • Water • Yellow goo • Yellow liquid |