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On the other hand, a Tychonoff space \\(X\\) is strongly zero-dimensional if any two completely separated sets are separated by a clopen set, that is, if \\(A\\) and \\(B\\) are such that there is a continuous function \\(f:X\\to[-1,1]\\) with \\(f[A]=\\{-1\\}\\) and \\(f[B]=\\{1\\}\\), then there is a clopen set \\(C\\) such that \\(A\\subseteq C\\) and \\(C\\cap B=\\emptyset\\). Equivalently, a Tychonoff space \\(X\\) is strongly zero-dimensional if the \u010cech-Stone compactification \\(\\beta X\\) is zero-dimensional.  There are by now many examples of zero-dimensional spaces that are not strongly zero-dimensional, even metrizable ones. In this paper, the authors present an example of a zero-dimensional \\(F\\)-space that is not strongly zero-dimensional. There are many characterizations of \\(F\\)-spaces but the authors take as the definition the one that at first glance seems quite close to strong zero-dimensionality. A Tychonoff space \\(X\\) is an \\(F\\)-space if for every continuous function \\(f:X\\to\\mathbb{R}\\) there is another continuous function \\(k:X\\to\\mathbb{R}\\) with the property that \\(f=k\\cdot |f|\\).  The main part of the paper is devoted to the construction of the \\(F\\)-space. This construction is inspired by an answer to a question on MathOverFlow, which in turn was inspired by Dowker's example \\(M\\) in [\\textit{C. H. Dowker}, Q. J. Math., Oxf. II. Ser. 6, 101--120 (1955; Zbl 0066.41204)]. The authors first consider an ordered continuum \\(K\\) with a dense subset \\(D\\) that can be enumerated as \\(\\left\\langle d_{\\alpha}:\\alpha\\in\\omega_2\\right\\rangle\\) in such a way that every tail set \\(T_{\\alpha}=\\{d_{\\beta}:\\beta\\geqslant\\alpha\\}\\) is dense in \\(K\\). Next they create a sequence \\(\\left\\langle K_{\\alpha}:\\alpha\\leqslant\\omega_2\\right\\rangle\\) of split intervals over \\(K\\). 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