The atmospheric particles

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Appears in: Descent

In Descent (2258)

In the book's words

• «Several annotations made later indicated the readings of various instruments: in a schematic visual context, Kurt watched as an electromagnetic wave emanated from the columns when they were analyzed and propagated almost instantaneously through the suspended particles of the atmosphere to the low orbit of the spacecraft.»
• «The ship had instantly split in two, sliced cleanly through the section drawn by the particle layer.»

Later in the book

Spoilers for Descent

• «They are Gadolinium-128 molecules in suspension, an isotope whose stability should be physically impossible.»

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