'As far as the size goes, it is not absolute size, but size as determined by the total quantity of intra-atomic energy which is released that counts.'

'What we need is a field of some kind to liberate that energy. Exactly like the atomic vortex, only more so.'

'Velantia, too, has been under the domination of the Mardonalians, and it is now time that we were on our way.'

'The Mardonalians, the Fenachrone--fluoresced utterly away.'

'Yes--you introduce the copper bar and force it into contact.'

'Vanadium doesn't fluoresce--it fumes away instead.'

'I think that we are up against another Szell' 

'With copper gone, civilization on three planets came to a sudden and disastrous end.'

'Give me a man every time. A man's a man, and if he isn't, it's his own fault.'

'With that, we can liberate the intra-atomic energy of copper just as easily as we are now liberating that of platinum.'

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