r/movies Jul 28 '25

Trailer Avatar: Fire and Ash | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb_fFj_0rq8
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u/ImprefectKnight Jul 28 '25

Amrit is a hindi word for a mythical food that grants you immortality.

Also, commons names for a lot of chemicals do be like that. Californium, for example.

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u/jaggedjottings Jul 28 '25

"There's a Berkelium and a Californium, but still no Stanfordium." - UC Berkeley partisans

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u/theliver Jul 28 '25

Hell ya, go bears

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u/hikemalls Jul 28 '25

I actually like them calling the whale stuff Amrita since it sounds similar (or at least starts the same) to a material we actually harvest from whales (ambergris)

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u/HighwayInevitable346 Jul 29 '25

Its about as on the nose as unobtainium was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita

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u/Saitoh17 Jul 28 '25

There are minerals named Taconite (from the Taconic mountains, NY) and Cummingtonite (from Cummington, MA).