Starlite

An amateur chemist by the name of Maurice Ward was able to create a heat-resistant plastic that was virtually indestructible. It could withstand 10,000 degrees Celsius and a force 75 times the strength of Hiroshima. He took the material on TV and demonstrated an experiment where a raw egg was coated in Starlite and blasted by a blowtorch for 5 mins. When the material was peeled off, the egg was still cold. NASA was incredibly interested, but Maurice didn’t want to share his invention, for fear it would be misused or someone else would profit from it. He never let samples out of his sight for fear of theft and reverse-engineering. The secret of Starlite died with him and there’s no record of how it was made.