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  • At the same time, the other ship took a hit from something that would have vaporized her had she not been armored in collapsium.

    Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

  • Soon he was spending most of his time at the shipyard, watching the engines go in-Abbot lift-and drive for normal space, Dillingham hyperdrive, power converters, pseudograv, all at the center of the globular ship Living quarters and workshops went in next, all armored in collapsium-plated steel.

    Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

  • A collapsed-matter producer; now they could collapsium-plate their own shielding.

    Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

  • Grego went through alone, and down a short flight of steps to another door, brightly iridescent with a plating of collapsium, like a spaceship's hull or a nuclear reactor.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • They produced all their own fissionables, and had recently begun to export a little refined plutonium; they had even started producing collapsium shielding.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • Brannhard took a drink from his glass, and Coombes shuddered inwardly; the man must have a collapsium-plated digestive tract.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • They moved toward the center on a production line, finally reaching a matter-collapser where they were plated with collapsium.

    The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Even the spider was home -- a three-hundred-foot ball of collapsium, looking tiny at the very middle.

    The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Finally, the whole top of the hundred-foot collapsium-covered structure was uncovered, and the excavation had been leveled out wide enough to accommodate all the massive paraphernalia of the collapsium-cutter.

    The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934

  • There was a collapsium plant, with its own mass-energy converter.

    The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934

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