Could life survive in oceans that eat glass and treat water as poison? Explore fluorine-rich biology, hydrogen fluoride seas, and alien creatures whose metabolisms resemble carefully contained rocket engines.

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Fluorine Lifeforms – Creatures of the Halogen Seas

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

Chris Zabriskie

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

5:16 Fluorine in the Toolbox

10:14 The Halogen Sea

17:35 Rocket-Engine Biology & Fluorine Dragons

23:11 Worlds, Weather, Detection, and Civilization

28:16 TierZoo

29:24 Life Under Armed Guard

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