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"I'm strictly an ivory-tower person. I can explain things but I can't do things."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Dekon Type DCQ | ||
| Decontamination foam. |
| He unclamped a fire-extinguisher-like affair; opened the door of a tiny room. "In here!" He cradled the device and opened four valves. Fast as he was, she was ready for the gush of thick, creamy foam from the multiplex nozzle.
"Oh, Dekon?" she asked. "I've read about it. I rub it in good, all over me?" "That's right. Short for 'Decontaminant, Complete; Compound, Absorbent, and Chelating; Type DCQ.' It takes care of radiation, but speed is of the essence. All over you is right." He placed the foam-gun on the floor and went vigorously to work. "Eyes, too, yes. Everywhere. Just that. And swallow six gulps of it ... that's it. I slap a gob of it over your nose and mouth and you inhale once-hard and deep. One good one's enough, but if it isn't a good one you die of lung cancer, so I'll have to knock you out and give it to you while you're unconscious, and that isn't good-complications. So make it good and deep?" |
| Technovelgy from Subspace Explorers,
by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. Published by Not Known in 1965 Additional resources -
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Thanks to Winchell Chung for contributing this item; see his effects of radiation page of science fiction / science fact references.
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