From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Mr Anderson  schrieb:   
      
   > I want to put some more interesting ranged weapons into the   
   > setting, and I remember the weapon called "stiletto beam" from   
   > "Earthlight". In the book it worked by magnetically launching   
   > a stream of molten metal.   
      
   A low-viscosity liquid such as a metal will break up due to surface   
   tension. See what happens to a free jet of water.   
      
   > As far as I know, it's not possible,   
   > because metals loose their magnetic properties when molten   
      
   They are still conductive, so magnetic fields will work on them.   
   You don't need ferromagnetism for that, simple induction will do.   
      
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