Two hundred years in the future, in a fully colonized solar system, police detective Josephus Miller (Thomas Jane), who was born in the asteroid belt, is given the assignment to find a missing young woman; Julie Mao (Florence Faivre).
Perlite is made from a mined volcanic glass of the same name. As a raw material it contains water, trapped by the rapid cooling of lava. The moisture vaporizes explosively when heat is applied.
Expanded perlite is also used in the chemical, petroleum-refining, food, and pharmaceutical industries and in glassmaking and agriculture. Perlite is widely used in many countries throughout the world. The USSR has aggregate geological reserves of perlite that are estimated at approximately 500 million m 3.