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... magnesium , titanium , iron , glass , and oxygen - all of which are abundant in lunar rocks . The metals in turn would serve to build the colony and to build powersats as well . A few powersat components , such as turbine blades and ...
... magnesium , titanium , iron , glass , and oxygen - all of which are abundant in lunar rocks . The metals in turn would serve to build the colony and to build powersats as well . A few powersat components , such as turbine blades and ...
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... Magnesium Seawater 0.012 2 x 1015 Manganese Sea floor nodules 30 1 × 1011 4 × 108 13,000 Argon Air 1 5 × 1013 2 × 108 Bromine Seawater 0.0006 1 x 1014 6 × 108 Nickel Peridotite 0.2 6 × 1011 1.4 x 106 Titanium Ilmenite , titanium - rich ...
... Magnesium Seawater 0.012 2 x 1015 Manganese Sea floor nodules 30 1 × 1011 4 × 108 13,000 Argon Air 1 5 × 1013 2 × 108 Bromine Seawater 0.0006 1 x 1014 6 × 108 Nickel Peridotite 0.2 6 × 1011 1.4 x 106 Titanium Ilmenite , titanium - rich ...
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... magnesium . One major exception is phosphorus from phosphate rocks , used for agriculture . Though known and potential high - grade resources are very large , they are hardly inexhaustible . In the long run , as H. G. Wells pointed out ...
... magnesium . One major exception is phosphorus from phosphate rocks , used for agriculture . Though known and potential high - grade resources are very large , they are hardly inexhaustible . In the long run , as H. G. Wells pointed out ...
Contents
CONTENTS Acknowledgments | 8 |
Introduction by Ray Bradbury | 9 |
Other Life in Space | 11 |
Copyright | |
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