Collocations withdust
These are words often used in combination withdust.
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airborne dust
This variable provides a measure of the average particulate concentration in the air (airborne dust) of each country's cities.
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amount of dust
Operations beyond this period will depend on the amount of dust deposited on the rover's solar panels.
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asbestos dust
These bodies indicate past exposure to asbestos dust but are not proof of the presence of disease due to the inhalation of asbestos.
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brick dust
Abandoned for many years, the space was unheated, covered in a thick layer of brick dust, and had become a haven for mosquitoes.
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cosmic dust
The study of cosmic dust with in-situ experiments from spacecraft provides data that are complementary to information gained by astronomical observation.
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dust collector
In many cases the heat or moisture content of dust can negatively affect the filter media of a baghouse or cartridge dust collector.
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dust explosion
It was only at the turn of the twentieth century that they realised that there could be what is known as a spontaneous coal dust explosion.
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dust lane
The inner part of the galaxy appears to be lenticular, with a dust lane in it.
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dust mask
Three-element compounds such as air traffic control and rubber dust mask are symmetrical in that they consist entirely of free-standing lexemes (as well as nouns).
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dust particle
However, the chargeto-mass ratio of a dust particle can take any value.
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fine dust
One day, he noticed the persistent fall of a fine dust, and observed how it scratched some of the astronomical instruments.
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interplanetary dust
The collection of meteor observations by several methods from all around the world ensures the comprehensive study of meteor showers and their relation to comets and interplanetary dust.
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interstellar dust
Most of this incoming material is interstellar dust (50- 700 m diameter), about 4 % of which reaches the surface unaltered.
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layer of dust
But even today, if one leaves one's shoes out for two days, there is a layer of dust on them.
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lead dust
We had a debate last year on the subject of lead dust from a factory which infected the children in the neighbourhood.
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lunar dust
Lunar dust generally connotes even finer materials than lunar soil, the fraction which is less than 30 micrometers in diameter.
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mineral dust
That disease is due to the inhalation of mineral dust, which solidifies in the lungs and gives rise to various degrees of disability, and, in too many cases, to death.
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radioactive dust
It is expected that the latter can regulate the crossfield plasma particle transport in tokamak discharges which are contaminated by radioactive dust.
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silica dust
It was probably only the fact that there was a risk of lead poisoning or the inhalation of silica dust.
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speck of dust
The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust !
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