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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] No. You're basically just asking the same question that Mark did when starting this thread. And many of the answers - mine, Tahna's and Ritten's especially - make it plain that just because we would "expect" a large section of rock being vapourised to emit a hella lotta heat according to our own physical rules (or contemporary notions thereof) doesn't mean that it's what happens when someone in Trek decides to start zapping. We know that objects aren't being vapourised according to the proper definition, it's a term used to describe a similar process which actually involves matter (and energy) phasing out of our continuum (and imperfectly at that, given, say, residue is left behind like in "Gambit"). A question that's just occurred to me: has the word 'vapourisation' even been used onscreen to describe the effect of a phaser set on Kill? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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