Editing Nano-thorn (section)

==Known Examples==
[[Armsmaster]] created a halberd of plain stainless steel with nano-thorns surrounding its blade tip. He wielded it against [[Leviathan]], creating plumes of dust so great they briefly obscured him.<ref name="8.4">[[Extermination 8.4]]</ref> Armsmaster finished the nano-thorn halberd only the night before the [[Battle against Leviathan]].<ref>To be fair to the man, though, Armsmaster did only create the first iteration of the disintegration Halberd with Dragon that very morning. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/extermination-8-4/#comment-1262 Comment by Wildbow on Extermination 8.4]</ref><ref name="I7">[[Interlude 7]]</ref>

He later created a miniaturized, pocket-knife version of the same device for [[Emily Piggot]] to use in demonstrations, which he kept on a stand on his desk. It was stolen by [[Mannequin]] and used to escape through the wall.<ref name="11d">[[Interlude 11d]]</ref> He later wielded it against [[Skitter]] in her territory.<ref name="12.7">He reached into the hole where his neck and head were supposed to be and withdrew a small knife.<br><br>I adjusted my posture.  He was a tinker, and that knife could be ''anything''.<br><br>He pressed a switch, and it was soon surrounded with a gray blur.  I recognized it as Armsmaster’s tech.<br><br>A weapon with that exact same visual effect had done horrendous damage to ''Leviathan''. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/plague-12-7 Excerpt] from [[Plague 12.7]]</ref>

The Azazel [[Dragon]] suits could create nano-thorn "barricades".<ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26.x|26.x (Donation Interlude; Saint)]]</ref><ref name="16.5">[[Monarch 16.5]]</ref> They could lay down telescoping rails from which nano-thorns sprung,<ref name="I26"/> which unfolded in milliseconds like a stick of bamboo growing leaves and shoots.<ref name="16.5"/> They could do this quickly enough to intercept a moving bus.<ref name="I26"/> They could extend over and around a person in seconds. The blurs they created were five or six feet across.<ref name="16.5"/>

A [[Crawler]] clone, half his body destroyed by nano-thorns, regenerated it with red nano-thorn blurs around his arm, shoulder and leg. When he deliberately disintegrated his other arms, they grew back with similar alterations.<ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26.x|26.x (Donation Interlude; Saint)]]</ref>

[[Defiant]] built a nano-thorn generator into his leg,<ref name="16.y">[[Interlude 16.y]]</ref> allowing him to chop [[Bonesaw]] in half by kicking her.<ref name="I19">[[Interlude 19.x]]</ref>

Defiant equipped his armor with shield-like panels on his forearms, shoulders and knees, each three or four feet long, marked with designs like a dragon’s wings, or with a dragon’s face engraved on the front, mouth open, with red lights glowing from within. They could become a "whirling flurry" of nano-thorns, which he used to strip away most of an Endbringer's body before turning to other weapons. He could also generate the blur effect around his spear.<ref name="26.2"/>

[[The Simurgh]] copied nano-thorn technology and integrated it into the [[Endbringer]] [[Leviathan]], along with other improvements.<ref name="28.5">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/cockroaches-28-5/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.5]]</ref>

With [[Masamune]]'s help, Defiant created a number of small nano-thorn knives. He gave one to [[Taylor]].<ref name="29.3">“Keep it away from heat.  If the growths start knuckling together, then it’s probably clogged at the air intake.  You can unscrew the cap at the butt of the knife and access the air intake there.  Bake it at roughly five hundred degrees to clear it, then thoroughly vacuum.  Pay attention to how long it takes the growths to hit maximum length… you’ll know because the colors at the ends are a lighter gray.  Three point seven seconds is the optimum time.  If it takes shorter then you’ll know something’s wrong with-“<br><br>“The knife won’t degrade too much in the next day,” Dragon said.  “And we ''have'' spares, thanks to Masamune.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/venom-29-3/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.3]]</ref>