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* The disruption-balls fired by "The Gun That Shot Too Straight", in Ralph Roberts' short story.

* The balefire weave of ''[[The Wheel of Time]]''. Manifests as a beam of light that instantly banishes whatever it touches from existence, not even leaving dust behind. The destruction visited upon the target is so extreme, being killed with balefire [[Deader Than Dead|prevents a person from]] [[Back from the Dead|being brought back to life]], even by [[Physical God|gods]]. If that isn't enough, contact with balefire also ''burns the very actions that the person recently took [[Ret-Gone|out of existence, undoing them]]''.

* ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19174 The Man Who Rocked the Earth]'' by Arthur Train and Robert Wood.

* Disintegrators are one of the earliest stock energy weapons introduced in ''[[Perry Rhodan]]''. They work on the "disrupt molecular bonds" principle and so turn whatever they touch into expanding gasses and/or very fine dust; since the beam only affects what it touches ''directly'' (and doesn't, say, expand from that spot to magically consume the whole person or object), the technology has practical applications away from the battlefield as well.