Nectism

Nectism was an artificial force that was carried by necton particles. This force could be used to manipulate electromagnetism. It had many uses, but one of the main ones was to help stabilize chemical structures that would not normally be stable (such as long germanium polymers, for example).

Nectism could be introduced to chemicals using various exotic vector particles, and once introduced would hold the chemical structure together and allow it to exist for a much longer time than it normally could (often indefinitely.

Nectism was distinct from ligism, an artificial force used to stabilize unstable atomic nuclei and hadrons, and equilism, another artificial force used to stabilize fundamental particles.