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 is originally mentioned by name in Metroid Prime, but may be represented in some games by Power Bomb Blocks. In the former, it takes on two vastly different forms: a rocklike ore that blocks hatches and the framework around panes of glass.
A material with similar properties, Denzium, appears only in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes as a replacement for Bendezium.
Locations[]
Tallon Overworld[]
Chozo Ruins[]
Magmoor Caverns[]
Phendrana Drifts[]
Phazon Mines[]
- 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[]
Official Metroid Prime website[]
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[]
- 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 (Phazon Mines)
- "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/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/Omega Research/Central Dynamo
- "Collapsed Bendezium wall section is structurally unsound."
- Workstation Tunnel
- "Unstable Bendezium debris blocking path."
Maintenance Tunnel hint[]
"A rock slide has blocked off this passage. Analysis indicates traces of Bendezium."
Gallery[]
| Substances | |
|---|---|
| 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 |