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"I'm strictly an ivory-tower person. I can explain things but I can't do things."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Ultron | ||
| Very handy material is invisible and non-reflective. |
| Ultron is a solid of great molecular density and moderate elasticity, which has the property of being 100 percent conductive to those pulsations known as light, electricity and heat. Since it is completely permeable to light vibrations, it is therefore absolutely invisible and non-reflective. Its magnetic response is almost, but not quite, 100 percent also. It is therefore very heavy under normal conditions but extremely responsive to the repellor anti-gravity rays, such as the Hans use as "legs" for their airships. |
| From Armageddon: 2419 A.D.,
by Philip Frances Nowlan. Published by Amazing Stories in 1928 Additional resources -
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If only we knew more about ultron:
It's primary use is in ultron wire.
I visited the plants where ultronic vibrations were isolated from the
ether and through slow processes built up into subelectronic,
electronic and atomic forms into the two great synthetic elements,
ultron and inertron. I learned something, superficially at least, of
the processes of combined chemical and mechanical action through which
were produced the various forms of synthetic cloth.
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