Yggdrasyl Laboratories have had our best chemical engineers, biotechnicians and alternative philosophers working on this problem for … a long time. We have several valid answers, but they are somewhat contradictory. Suffice to say that the substance has emergent properties, and may even be capable of warping language used to describe it.
FLARD. As it says in the Pirate Translations; leave it alone and it’ll probably leave you alone.