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  • Thus, there exists a complete local source of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, ideal for synthesizing various hydrocarbonic chemicals or making complicated polyethylene materials such as stellene, so useful in space.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • In the pleasant, steamy sun-warmth of those stellene interiors, they bounced back and forth from elastic wall to elastic wall, with gravity temporarily at zero because they had stopped the spin of their bubbs.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • Nelsen looked at the fifty-odd stellene rings that they had broken out of their containers -- the others, still packed, were held in reserve.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • A great roll of stellene tubing, to have a six-feet six-inch inside diameter when inflated, was delivered on Monday.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • By the time the sound arrived, all of the stellene in the _Far Side_ must have been consumed.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • A darkening lead-salt impregnation in the otherwise transparent stellene cuts radiation entry below the danger level, and filters the glare and the hard ultra-violet out of the sunshine.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • It was ceiled with stellene; its walls were solid rock.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • Maybe it was fifteen hours later that Frank Nelsen found himself walking along a stellene-covered causeway, looking for Left Foot Gimp Hines.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • Barbed-wire fences, low, olive-drab gate buildings, guidance tower, the magnesium dome of a powerhouse reactor, repair and maintenance shops, personnel-housing area carefully shielded against radiation by a huge stellene bubble, sealed and air-conditioned, with double-doored entrances and exits.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • For the time being, Frank was free to breathe open air under big, stellene domes.

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

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