The disintegrator gun that was used by the K1 robot. (TV: Robot)
A disintegrator gun was a handheld weapon which effectively "disintegrated" the target.
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Norton Folgate had a disintegrator gun and used its last shot to kill a creature which attacked him and Belle Epoch at Margate Pier. (AUDIO: Parasite)
In an alternate Earth timeline in the 22nd century, one such device employed an ultrasonic beam. In various forms, it was the weapon of choice of the human resistance opposing the Daleks and the Ogrons of that time. They were apparently made of steel composites. (TV: Day of the Daleks)
Components for another disintegrator gun were stolen in the 20th century by the K1 robot, on orders from the Scientific Reform Society. It was used to break into Joseph Chambers' safe, which contained the destructor codes for the world's nuclear missiles. K1 used the weapon to vaporise a UNIT soldier, a tank called by the Brigadier; and — accidentally — its own creator, Professor Jeremiah Kettlewell. The Brigadier retrieved the gun and fired it upon the robot to try to destroy it, but K1's living-metal status allowed it to absorb the power and use it to grow. (TV: Robot)