We calculate the mod $2$ spinᶜ-cobordism ring up to uniform F-isomorphism (i.e., inseparable isogeny). As a consequence we get the prime ideal spectrum of the mod $2$ spinᶜ-cobordism ring. We also calculate the mod $2$ spinᶜ-cobordism ring ``on the nose'' in degrees ≤ 33. We construct an infinitely generated nonunital subring of the $2$-torsion in the spinᶜ-cobordism ring. We use our calculations of product structure in the spin and spinᶜ cobordism rings to give an explicit example, up to cobordism, of a compact $24$-dimensional spin manifold which is not cobordant to a sum of squares, which was asked about in a 1965 question of Milnor.
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