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The walls seemed to bulge outward with the pressure of the room, the aluminite braces straining and creaking.

The Erentz engineers claimed for their system a pressure absorption of 97.4%, leaving, in Grantline's case, only 2.6% of room pressure to be held by the building's aluminite bracers.

Built for this purpose in Great-New York, Grantline had brought his aluminite girders and braces and the glassite panels in sections.

We floated there like a derelict—dark, silent, save for the lapping of the water against our aluminite pontoons.

The fuel tanks were made of thin durable aluminite; a huge cylinder, covered with heat-resistant paint, was the air conditioner; power came from a bank of atomic dynamos and generators; while those massive pumps kept the station's artificial air and water supply circulating.