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Updated: May 26, 2025
The new object-compasses were housed in arenak cases after setting, and the housings were then exhausted to the highest attainable vacuum. Oscillation was set up by means of one carefully standardized electrical impulse, instead of by the clumsy finger-touch Seaton had used.
The bearings, built of arenak and Osnomian jewels, were as strong as the axles of a truck and yet were almost perfectly frictionless. "I like them myself," admitted Dunark. "Without a load the needles will rotate freely more than a thousand hours on the primary impulse, as against a few minutes in the old type; and under load they are many thousands of times as sensitive."
The heat is removed by it from the inside of an icebox for instance, and put outside, which is what is wanted. However, it must have some place to dump the heat. In the fight with the Mardonalians, Seaton has an arenak cylinder on his compressor, and runs it very heavily, but if he can't get the heat outside the ship, and away from it, he wouldn't cool the machine at all.
It is built of transparent arenak, like the 'Kondal. Even though it seems impossible, I believe it is the 'Kondal'." "Maybe so, and again maybe DuQuesne built it or stole it. On second thought, though, I don't believe that DuQuesne would be fool enough to tackle us again in the same way but I'm taking no chances.... O. K., it is the 'Kondal, I can see Dunark and Sitar myself, now."
They'll stop any ray attack and this arenak hull will stop anything else we are apt to get there. Watch this board, will you, and I'll see if I can't negotiate with them." Seaton opened the door.
He had added a third screen-generator, so that now, in addition to the four-foot hull of arenak and the repellers, warding off any material projectile, the Skylark was also protected by an outer, an intermediate, and an inner ray-screen; each driven by the super-power of a four-hundred-pound bar and each covering the entire spectrum capable of neutralizing any dangerous frequency known to those master-scientists, the Fenachrone.
When a child is nearly grown, a collar bearing his name and the device of his house is cast about his neck. This collar is made of 'arenak, a synthetic metal which, once formed, cannot be altered by any usual means. It cannot be scratched, cut, bent, broken, or worked in any way except at such a high temperature that death would result, if such heat were applied to the collar.
Loring, swinging the beam, whistled in amazement. "Wow! What a difference! And this ship of ours has a skin of arenak six feet thick!" "Yes. Now you understand why I didn't want to argue with anybody out here as long as we were in our steel ship." "I understand, all right; but I can't understand the power of these rays. Suppose I had had all twenty of them on instead of only three?"
As his hand tightened upon the lever, a succession of shells burst upon the dock, wrecking it completely, all three men fancied that the world had come to an end as the stream of high explosive was directed against their vessel. But the four-foot shell of arenak was impregnable, and Seaton shot the Skylark upward into the midst of the enemy fleet.
Steered by wireless and carrying no crews, they were simply winged bombs carrying thousands of pounds of terrific electrical explosive enough to kill the men inside the vessel by the concussion of the explosion, even should the arenak armor be strong enough to withstand the blow.
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