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erg
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erg as in:  ergs of chemical energy

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    We are in the central erg beyond the Harkonnen patrols.†  (source)
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    Our "semisentient" erg in the box there.†  (source)
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    And I am a Fremen born this day here in the Habbanya erg.†  (source)
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    The Consul remembered his first glimpse of the kilometer-long treeship as he closed for rendezvous, the treeship's details blurred by the redundant machine and erg-generated containment fields which surrounded it like a spherical mist, but its leafy bulk clearly ablaze with thousands of lights which shone softly through leaves and thin-walled environment pods, or along countless platforms, bridges, command decks, stairways, and bowers.†  (source)
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    I thought ergs were those forcefield critters that Templars use on their treeships.†  (source)
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    Must I prove it by leaving every Fremen tribe in the erg without a leader?†  (source)
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    The Church has accepted the Hegemony's ruling that...these creatures...ergs...are not sentient beings...and thus not candidates for salvation.†  (source)
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    The treeship Yggdrasill with its crew and complement of clones and semisentient erg drivers was dead.†  (source)
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    ERG: an extensive dune area, a sea of sand.†  (source)
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    An erg!†  (source)
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    With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day—even if you're caught in the Great Erg.†  (source)
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    Erg?†  (source)
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    Until he did this thing himself, even the great southlands — the area some twenty thumpers beyond the erg — were denied him unless he ordered a palanquin and rode like a Reverend Mother or one of the sick and wounded.†  (source)
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