cosmium

The cosmium was disintegrating under the ray, but very slowly, breaking first into gaseous cosmic rays, then free, and spreading.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

A plane of artificial matter formed just beneath it, and sheared it from its bed on the planetoid, cutting through the heavy cosmium anchors.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

_Thought_, it stood in letters ten feet high, made of clear transparent cosmium, and the golden light photons, imprisoned in it, the slowly disintegrating lux metal, would cause those letters to shine for countless aeons with the steady golden light they now had.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

That ray was in fact, a solid mass of cosmium moving with the velocity of light.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

Stopping their motion through space, but maintaining a time field that permitted them to work without consuming precious time, Arcot formed some more cosmium, but now he subjected it to a special type of converted field, and into the cosmium, he forced some light photons, half bound, half free.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

The cosmic rebounded from the cosmium walls, and from the artificial matter that protected the eyes.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

At the suggestion of the cruiser commander who had seen the construction of a spaceship from the emptiness of space, Arcot rapidly constructed a small, very simple, molecular drive machine of pure cosmium, making it entirely from energy.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

It was held now on great cosmium springs, but Arcot was not by any means through.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

The fort had turned its destructive ray on the cosmium ship with the result that, as before, the cosmium slowly disintegrated into puffs of cosmic rays.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

And where it touched the _Thought_, there was a terrific explosion, and inconceivably violent energy lashed out as the cosmium instantaneously liberated its energy.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940