Anyone remember the couple of stories by... is it Poul Anderson? About the
crew of a spaceship trying to hide from some enemies in a system which had some
interesting planets?
One planet had the substance called "buckyballs", which were a frictionless
carbon substance which was all that was left after the rest of the biosphere
sublimed away.
Another planet had some kind of liquid acid life form that slowly ate
*anything*, starting with the ship's landing gear, and working up...
The Buckballs were a real interesting 'frictionless' substance, and supposedly
possible. I thought I remembered seeing newspaper article on thier research
last year...
Jim Baranski