Covering nearly 2,000 years of history, Ele Willoughby traces the glass etching ability of hydrofluoric acid back to its fluorspar origins and explores the modern optics of fluorite.
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Willoughby, E. Making light of fluorite. Nat. Geosci. 15, 760 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01040-y
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