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John Reiher <kedamono.Poit@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> MAGNETIC MONSTER.
>MONOLITH MONSTERS
OK, I figured one of these would be the movie I recall,
but neither one is, though some themes sound similar.
In this one, rocks containing "Element Number (something
above 103)" start growing and getting hot when they are
not immersed in water.
One demo the scientists did was to place the rock on a
table with a bucket of water underneath the table, then
put some dessicant (sulfuric acid?) on the rock. It
seemed like it went through several phase changes,
each time abruptly getting larger, and hotter. At the
last phase change, it burns through the table, lands
in the bucket of water, and shrinks back down to its
original size.
After the last phase change, if water isn't available,
the rock explodes. They did this demo with a globe
suspended from a tree branch out in the desert, with
a teeny tiny bit of the mineral inside.
The climax, it's going to blow up the Earth if they
don't get water on it really quickly, so they blow
up Hoover Dam. (Which had caused the problem in the
first place by blocking the Colorado River and letting
the mineral dry out.)
I recall the movie pretty fondly, but I have no idea
whether I would be able to tolerate it today.
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