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[Mass Effect] Element Zero has an atomic number of zero...

So does that mean it has no Protons and is therefore a mass of electrons and Neutrons? But without Protons, no electrons would be attracted to the nucleus of the atom, so Element Zero would just be a mass of neutrons? In which case, why isn't it called neutronium?
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I'll be completely honest with you: we don't really know.  You see, it rather strongly defies characterization by any conventional means.  We can only identify it by what it does.  Here are a few things that eezo is NOT:

1) It is not composed of Neutrons.  Neutrons have a specified particle mass and momentum that can be measured.  The mass of any "particle" of eezo varies within even minute E/M fields.  A Neutron sized "particle" of eezo would interact with an atom in very different ways than neutrons have been observed to.

2) Eezo cannot strictly be described as a traditional particle-wave.  Its energy is not characterized by mass, speed, or field intensity.

Now, an eezo device is not strictly a "black box" as some like to call it.  We know how to isolate and concentrate eezo using a harmonic spin aligned "gravity trap."  The thing is, the gravity trap is aligned by tuning it with an eezo charged core.  This creates something of a chicken, and egg problem: if the only way to capture eezo is with eezo, where did the first eezo come from?

If you want to tell the difference between a theoretical physicist and an engineer, as them what eezo is.  Theoretical physicists start tearing their hair out, and scribbling equations on any available surface, quoting the speculations of other people who went mad from jacking themselves into prothean archives.  Engineers just extract a bit of it, zap with with a variable electric field, and make things zip around the room.