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"I think we're still on that topic, still trying to figure out what computers are, how they change us, why we use them."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Cataclysmite | ||
| A high explosive. |
No details about its fictional composition, but the name is cool.
| He waited till the machine stabilized, then glided it down to where he had ripped a gash in the cliff with the charge of cataclysmite. Good shot: brought down a lot of sandstone, cracked the vein of flint and hadn't thrown it around too much. A lot of big slabs were loose. |
| Technovelgy from Little Fuzzy,
by H. Beam Piper. Published by Doubleday in 1962 Additional resources -
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See also pentavalent nitrogen from 'Doc' Smith's Space Hounds of IPC.
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