RE: Sandcasters, was [FT] Vector...

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Tim Jones wrote:

> Nor does *anything* moving fast through such a cloud
> including hyper velocity projectiles from railguns. A dense
> enough cloud to attenuate beams would also ablate anthying
> moving through it at a high velocity.

Ablate or abrade? 

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