# Activated Quartzite

- **ID**: `EX_PURPLE`
- **What it is**: Refined Stellar Metal: Purple
- **Category**: Stellar
- **Base value**: 165 units
- **Storage**: Store: 2 Refined. Store it in 2 Refined. Why: Refined stellar metal, same family as the guide's refined.
- **Gettable**: needs seed: refinable once you have Quartzite or Crystallised Helium

On the site: https://nmsii.dlu.one/#/recipes?item=EX_PURPLE · chain planner https://nmsii.dlu.one/#/chain/EX_PURPLE

## Cheapest chain

Not reachable from any source tier, even with cooking. Gettable: needs seed, refinable once you have Quartzite or Crystallised Helium.

## Made by (2)

| Make | From | Operation | Mult | Time | Machine | Rate/h | Profit | Gettable |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Activated Quartzite | [Quartzite](PURPLE2.md) + [Crystallised Helium](GASGIANT1.md) + [Methane](GAS4.md) | Loosen Bonds | x0.33 | 1.5m | Large | 40 | -84 | T2 +4 |
| Activated Quartzite | [Quartzite](PURPLE2.md) + [Lithium](WATERWORLD1.md) + [Methane](GAS4.md) | Loosen Bonds | x0.33 | 1.5m | Large | 40 | -74 | T2 +4 |

## Used in (8)

| Make | From | Operation | Mult | Time | Machine | Rate/h | Profit | Gettable |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [4 Chromatic Metal](STELLAR2.md) | Activated Quartzite | Extract Chromatic Material | x4 | 30s | Portable | 480 | +187 | needs seed |
| [8 Magnetised Ferrite](LAND3.md) | Activated Quartzite + Ferrite Dust | Chromatic Metal Fusion | x4 | 1.5m | Medium | 320 | +477 | needs seed |
| [8 Chromatic Metal](STELLAR2.md) | Activated Quartzite + Pure Ferrite | Chromatic Metal Fusion | x4 | 1.5m | Medium | 320 | +511 | needs seed |
| [2 Lithium](WATERWORLD1.md) | Activated Quartzite + Crystallised Helium | Environmental Element Transfer | x1 | 1.5m | Medium | 80 | -103 | needs seed |
| [2 Crystallised Helium](GASGIANT1.md) | Activated Quartzite + Lithium | Environmental Element Transfer | x1 | 1.5m | Medium | 80 | -73 | needs seed |
| [2 Sodium Nitrate](CATALYST2.md) | Activated Quartzite + Crystallised Helium + Methane | Loosen Bonds | x0.67 | 1.5m | Large | 80 | -118 | T2 +4 |
| [2 Sodium Nitrate](CATALYST2.md) | Activated Quartzite + Lithium + Methane | Loosen Bonds | x0.67 | 1.5m | Large | 80 | -108 | T2 +4 |
| [Quartzite](PURPLE2.md) | Activated Quartzite + Carbon | Chromatic Alchemy | x0.50 | 1.0m | Medium | 60 | -45 | needs seed |

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