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C- C- C- + F2 -- C- C- C- + HF
FFF FFF

resulting in a teflon boned and shelled organism. He's going to be tough to do much with. Diatoms
leave strata of powdered teflon. The main energy reaction is:

HHH
-C- C- C- ..+ F2-- CF4 + HF
FFF
The blood catalyst metal is titanium, which results in colorless arterial blood and violet
veinous, as the titanium flips back and forth between tri- and tetra-valent states.

7. EFFECT ON INTRUDING ITEMS

Water decomposes into oxygen and hydrofluoric acid. All organic matter (earth type) converts into
oxygen, carbon tetrafluoride, hydrofluoric acid, etc., with more or less speed. A rubber gas mask
lasts about an hour. Glass first frosts and then disappears. Plastics act like rubber, only a
little slower. The heavy metals, iron, nickel, copper, monel, etc., stand up well, forming an
insoluble coat of fluorides at first and then doing nothing else.

8. WHY GO THERE?

Large natural crystals of fluorides, such as calcium difluoride, titanium tetrafluoride, zirconium
tetrafluoride, are extremely useful in optical instruments of various forms. Uranium appears as
uranium hex-afluoride, all ready for the diffusion process. Compounds of such non-metals as boron
are obtainable

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H. BEAM PIPER

from the atmosphere in high purity with very little trouble. All metallurgy must be electrical.
There are considerable deposits of beryllium, and they occur in high concentration in its ores.



PROLOGUE



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On Satan's Footstool

The big armor-tender vibrated, gently and not unpleasantly, as the contragravity field alternated
on and off, occasionally varying its normal rate of five hundred to the second when some thermal
updraft lifted the vehicle and the automatic radar-altimeter control acted to alter the frequency
and lower it again. Sometimes it rocked slightly, like a boat on the water, and, in the big screen
which served in lieu of a window at the front of the control cabin, the dingy-yellow landscape