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  • Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton

18 Aug 2023 • 2 min read
fluorine
Liquid fluorine in a cryogenic bath

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Turtle Island

2 March 2026 Turtle Island is a calque of a Native American term from the creation accounts of tribes speaking languages of the Iroquoian and Algonquian families. It originally was a name for the world, taken from various stories in which the world is said to be the back of
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