Ekaradium salts

Ekaradium salts are solid compounds containing ekaradium, a superheavy chemical element. Ekaradium, the 120th element on the periodic table, has unique relativistic properties. Its most common application is in antigrav shuttle engines, where it is charged to neutralize the gravitational effects exerted by the craft's mass.

Properties
Ekaradium salts were at one point sought after for their perceived ability to induce weight loss. However, the "weight loss" some users describe is actually the ekaradium temporarily cancelling out some of the gravitational pull on the body as it is metabolized. This revelation saw its decline as a health supplement.

The most common modern use of ekaradium salts is as a recreational drug. Highly potent salts are consumed by users, whose bodies see upwards of an 80% reduction in weight for as long as thirty minutes. In cases of excessive consumption, users are able to completely cancel out their own gravity or even give themselves "negative" gravity, causing repulsion from objects with mass.

Controversy
Ekaradium salts saw controversial use by Lambda politician Iosef Lombard. Lombard, who was in the process of being arrested in his Winston home for tax evasion, consumed a large quantity of salts and began to float out of reach. Lombard reportedly laughed and swore at the pursuing officers, but continued to float upward at an increasing speed as the metabolized salts decreased his gravity. Lombard rose to a height of approximately one-hundred meters (100m) before disappearing from sight in the clouds.

Lombard's body was later recovered from a grouping of trees outside Prospero, forty-seven kilometers (47km) west of Winston.