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  • Aiming for the weak point at the base of the skull, she let the troll have a long burst of the concentrated ion ray.†   (source)
  • Kassad had returned to his command EMV, closed the hatches, and-curling up in the warm darkness smelling of rubber, heated plastics, charged ions-had heard her whispers over the babble of the C3 channels and implant coding.†   (source)
  • But long before the child learns to talk properly—and Ion before it learns to think philosophically—the world we have become a habit.†   (source)
  • The electricity in the air has changed; it's like you can smell the ions dancing.†   (source)
  • He is known as Old Man Treadwell, as if he were a landmark, a rock format ion or brooding swamp.†   (source)
  • "You see ....Mar-ion—" He wasn't used to saying my name.†   (source)
  • The air felt strange all around me, like just after or before a thunderstorm when the very ions have been shifted, resettled.†   (source)
  • Pro-fess-ion-al.†   (source)
  • "Now let's find the den ions...' "That might be sooner than you think," remarked Tock, looking back at the suddenly trembling hug; and the trail turned again and continued to climb.†   (source)
  • Mom-pell-ion!†   (source)
  • At that time, the ARPL was heavily invested in chemistry and physics—ion sprays, reversal duplication, pimeson substrates—but there was growing interest in biologic problems.†   (source)
  • Why the current Confederation can't preserve the UN ION.†   (source)
  • When he opened the door of his apartment/office she saw him framed in a long succession or train of doorways, room after room receding in the general direct ion of Santa Monica, all soaked in rain-light.†   (source)
  • 8TH JUROR: ....twelve ....[He stops and turns to the Ion' JUROR.†   (source)
  • "Well," he said, "I guess it was a generation or so back that Dr. Spencer at Harwell demonstrated that titanium hydroxide would create a chemical reaction that separated uranyl ions from seawater.†   (source)
  • But he was a biologist and he made her captive to macrocytes and hemoglobin electrophoresis and ion exchange resins.†   (source)
  • Hermes has a constant-thrust ion engine.†   (source)
  • It was the only time that Vhaghar, Meraxes, and Baler-ion were all unleashed at once.†   (source)
  • Those old video systems emit faint ion beams.†   (source)
  • It was the nuclear-powered ion engine that took me to Mars †   (source)
  • Mulch looked at the room again through his ion-sensitive eye.†   (source)
  • "Vogel," Lewis continued, "how far can we deflect in thirty-nine minutes with the ion engines?"†   (source)
  • "The ion drive is simply not strong enough," Vogel replied.†   (source)
  • So long as the reactor and ion engines continued to work, we could bring it back.†   (source)
  • It knew when to angle the ship so the ion engines would be aimed correctly.†   (source)
  • If all goes well, if they bring it off, some natural law of perfect ion is obeyed.†   (source)
  • There was no sign of official act ion, no jitneys or ambulettes painted in primary colors.†   (source)
  • The predict ions did not seem reckless to them.†   (source)
  • The brain of a white rat releases calcium ions when it's exposed to radio-frequency waves.†   (source)
  • Experiments at facilities like the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in California and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR) had categorically proven that human thought, if properly focused, had the ability to affect and change physical mass.†   (source)
  • ion's roaring, and can tell What his horny throat expresseth, And to him the tiger's yell Comes articulate and presseth On his ear like mother-tongue.†   (source)
  • Kassad saw the telltale red glow of reentry, heard the ion buildup on the active radio channels, and suddenly wondered if this had been such a good idea.†   (source)
  • I know you get bored when I go into the math, so I'll summarize: The small, constant thrust of Hermes's ion drives is much harder to deal with than the large point-thrusts of presupply probes.†   (source)
  • Just the slow, steady ion engines.†   (source)
  • "And this too," said Ion.†   (source)
  • I wish Ion was here.†   (source)
  • A bolt of lightning ricocheted off the point and blasted the ghosts to ions, leaving a smoking crater where the earthen fountain had been.†   (source)
  • The results were quite clear: ACIDITY OF MEDIUM AS LOG H — ION CONCENTRATION CORRECTED FOR SKEW MEANS, MODES, S.D. FOUND IN CORREL/PRINT MM-76 CALL COORDINATES O.Y.88.†   (source)
  • And vaguely he remembered the rest, the details: all the intermediate steps, the necessary enzymes, the metals, ions, local factors.†   (source)
  • Love helps us develop an identity secure enough to allow itself to be placed in another's care and protect ion.†   (source)
  • He gave the impress ion he was intent on outfoxing us, working on our guilt, showing us that no matter how little sleep we got, he got less.†   (source)
  • An abrupt emotion entered his voice , a scrape and gargle that sounded like the stirring of some beast's ambit ion.†   (source)
  • Although he had told me in large (though generally impenetrable) detail about the technical nature of his research (enzymes, ion transference, permeable membranes, etc., also the fetus of that miserable rabbit), he had never divulged to me—nor had I out of reticence asked—anything concerning the ultimate justification for this complex and, beyond doubt, profoundly challenging biological enterprise.†   (source)
  • He had attempted to describe his experiment to me in detail—it had to do with amniotic fluid and the fetus of a rabbit, including weird stuff about enzymes and ion transference—but he had given up on me with an understanding laugh when, having taken me beyond my depth, he saw my look of pain and boredom.†   (source)
  • He was always sterilizing flasks, preparing media of various hydrogen-ion concentrations, copying his old notes into a new book lovingly labeled "X Principle, Staph," and adding to it further observations.†   (source)
  • The laboratory in which they talked (Gottlieb pacing the floor, his long arms fantastically knotted behind his thin back; Martin leaping on and off tall stools) was not in the least remarkable—a sink, a bench with racks of numbered test-tubes, a microscope, a few note-books and hydrogen-ion charts, a grotesque series of bottles connected by glass and rubber tubes on an ordinary kitchen table at the end of the room—yet now and then during his tirades Martin looked about reverently.†   (source)
  • I'll tell you why you came here myself: you see, I don't give you your wages, you are so proud you don't want to bow down and ask for it, and so you come to punish me with your stupid stares, to worry me and you have no sus-pic-ion how stupid it is—stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!†   (source)
  • "I crave your pardon, Deerslayer," said Judith, earnestly, more abashed than was her wont, in finding that she had in advertently made an appeal that might wound her compan ion's pride.†   (source)
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