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Originally Posted by Anthony
Incidentally, monomolecular in Niven applies to more than blades. A General Product hull is "an artificially-generated giant molecule, with the inter-atomic bonds artificially strengthened".
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I still suspect that Niven retroactively came up with that explanation for what they were in order to give them that special vulnerability to antimatter.
(In Niven's stories, the GP hulls are actually more vulnerable to antimatter than ordinary hulls are, though the Puppeteers don't advertise this. That is, an amount of antimatter than an ordinary hull would hold together amidst will destroy a GP hull.)