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"The first thing that's wrong with being a science-fiction writer today is that the present has caught up with the future and surpassed it."
- Peter Watts
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| Leybyrdite | ||
| Extremely tough crystalline metal. |
| "What would you think of an alloy that had a yield point -- not ultimate tensile, mind you, but yield -- of well over a million pounds, and yet an elongation of better than five percent?"
Deston whistled. "I would have said it was a pure pipe dream. What else is in it?" "Mostly tungsten. A lot of tantalum. Rhenium around ten percent. The research isn't done yet, but they're far enough along to know that they'll have something utterly fantastic. The problem, Byrd tells me, is to determine the optimum formula and environment for the growth and matting of single crystals of metal-tungsten 'whiskers'" |
| Technovelgy from Subspace Explorers,
by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. Published by Not Known in 1965 Additional resources -
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Thanks to Winchell Chung for the quote.
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