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Project Orion involved detonating small bombs close to the ship, where the expansion of the bomb material would push against a large graphite-coated steel plate. In order to enhance the efficiency of this process the bombs were supposed to be packed in polyetheylene plastic, which would vaporise...

Of course, all kinds of things have that numbing effect, amitryptlene [sp?] for instance which I think is generic Elavil. I was once under doctor's orders to crush it into a powder [which is white, by the way] and take a pinch by mouth in order to get a dose very much smaller than the smallest...

I think you mean defibrillator, that is, a device which regularises the heartbeat by interrupting the rapid flutterings known as atrial or ventricular fibrillation. A defibulator would be a device for removing a brooch or pin stuck in the flesh; a serious problem but not one modern medicine...