Science fiction ideas:

Principle: Molecular Disruption Device
"At the focal point of two beams, it sets up a field in which molecules can't hold together anymore. Electrons can't be shared...The field spreads out in a sphere, but it gets weaker the further t spreads. Except that where it actually runs nto a lot of molecules, it gets stronger and starts over. The bigger the ship, the stronger the new field...it can set up a chain that wipes them all out. Then the field dies down, the molecules come back together, and where you had a ship, you now have a lump of dirt with a lot of iron molecules in it. No radioactivity, no mess, just dirt" (Card 272)


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Reason: It is possible, with enough heat or pressure or atomic bombardment to split a molecule: if we can split the atom itself, a molecule is a piece of cake. But to make a molecule no longer want to stay together would require a bit more force; some atomic bonds are ionic; imagine trying to make a field......

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