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The cleanest variety of [[Death Ray]]. Whatever it strikes, be it commoner or king, is reduced to little more than sand and ozone (or simply vanishes in a flash of light). A great way to save money on special effects and not have to [[No Body Left Behind|litter the place with corpses]] or blood. Only a few stories will bother to [[Hand Wave|elaborate]] on where all that matter actually goes, or how the ray gun "knows" to stop disintegrating things once the original target is vaporized (rather than [[Grey Goo|disintegrating everything in the area]] up to and including the [[Earthshattering Kaboom|very planet]] everyone is standing on).