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"…we store information differently, reading a science fiction story, to make it make sense."
- Samuel R. Delany

Durachrome  
  Very hard alloy for tanks.  

A team on the left, the western bank, of the river opened up with a four-barreled heavy machine gun ~intended for antiaircraft use. They were good; the stream of half-ounce bullets hosed over the Mark III's armor like a river of green-tracer fire arching into the night. The sparks where the projectiles bounced from the density-enhanced durachrome were bright fireflies in the night. Where the layer of softer ablating material was still intact there was no spark, but a very careful observer might have seen starlight on the metal exposed by the bullets' impact.
Technovelgy from Honor of the Regiment, by Keith Laumer.
Published by Baen Books in 2002
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Compare to plasteel from Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert.

Thanks to Fortigurn for his suggestion.

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