Command & Conquer

Well for one thing I am sure that tiberium research is way different for the two separate species. Humans have learned how to harness it let it be for good or evil. They probably don't know the full potential of it. But the Scrin on the other hand probably know way more about it since they probably evolved in it. Heck they could have been the ones that sent the meteor to Earth in order to terraform the plane for there own needs.

Exactly, and also they are completely dependent on it to sustain thier life, its like crack to the Scrin. :P

If I would name an entire species that is addicted to one substance, it would be the Scrin being high on thier little Green(and Blue) cystal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15u7gDUo-VE#t=1m17s

Tiberian Sun... That's all I'm going to say. That game shows Tiberium as I like it.

It's the setting's Phlebotinum. It'll do whatever the plot demands.

Tiberium in Tiberian sun show what really Tiberian should be like.

agreed with the tiberian sun being the best game of it. had variants like an evolving plant life, creating tiberian lifeforms, it had the appearance that it was taking over the world if it wasnt fought.

in c&c3 it only had a radius of a hole in the ground and it lost its plant like look (big mistake imo)

c&c4 was a bad bad mistake to it.

Could the Liquid Tiberium Bomb be considered a terraforming tool, because other than just attracting the Scrin didn't it expand the red zone to more parts of Europe?

Mobius:"The possibilities of Tiberium... are limitless!"

This.

What he said the other guy said.

The problem with Tiberium is that there was never any "hard facts" nailed down about it right from the start. Is it a plant, or a rock? Where did it come from? Was it originally natural, or a synthetic substance created? Ect ect...

Not to mention that Tiberium itself is made up of mostly leached minerals, the "unknown" component, at only 1.5% mass per sample, is really the only thing that gives Tiberium it it's wow factor that you listed Gist (referencing the Riparius strain as a standard, see here)

My best guess is that Tiberium, in which we know it, is simply a compound made up from a slew of leached materials (Phosphor: 42.5%, Iron: 32.5%, Calcium: 15.25%, Copper: 5.75%, & Silica: 2.5%) that are extracted for industrial use, while the "Tiberium" properties that you listed come from the 1.5% of Unknown material, which is quoted by Dr. Mobius as:

"...A non-carbon based element, that appears to have strong ferrous qualities, with non-resonating reversible energy! Which has a tendency to disrupt carbon-based molecular structures, with inconsequent and unequal positrons orbiting on the first, second and ninth quadrings!"

Besides being techno-babble, this points out that the unknown part of Tiberium has a few plausible properties:

(a) It is not Carbon (non-carbon based element really doesn't make any sense whatsoever, but duh w/e he should have had a V8...)
(b) It has Iron-like properties (similar in ductility, malleability, conductivity, ect.)
(c) It possesses high energy potential either electronically, or as a fissile material
(d) It is very reactive, disrupting chemical bonds when introduced into carbon-based chemistry in order to introduce itself into an environment and create its own bonds
(e) It is made up of stable versions of exotic particles, I.e. the orbiting Positrons, which are essentially anti-electrons (see particle physics or anti-matter for reference)

While this may be practical for TD, everything else after that is like Golan stated: