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• Dust, fine, solid particles of matter borne in the air and settling onto surfaces. Numerous articles using the word in this familiar, everyday sense include:
  • Dust bowl, land affected by wind-borne soil erosion
  • Dust devil, a whirlwind
  • Dust storm, a meteorological phenomenon caused by strong winds blowing dust
  • Mineral dust, atmospheric aerosols of mineral origin
  • Dust mite, an arachnid living in and feeding off domestic dust
  • Dust jacket, a protective cover for a book

In the sciences dust may have a related but specific technical meaning:

• Cosmic dust, in intergalactic clouds
• Interstellar dust, in interstellar clouds
• Dust solution, a type of exact solution in general relativity
• Dust (relativity), idealization of a cold gas

Dust may also refer to: Look up dust in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, in 1935. ... Dust devil in Johnsonville, South Carolina. ... A sandstorm approaching Singapore, Florida, just before nightfall on April 27 2005. ... // General information Mineral dust is a term used to indicate atmospheric aerosols originated from the suspension of minerals constituting the soil. ... Binomial name Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus The house dust mite (Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus), sometimes abbreviated by allergists to HDM, is a cosmopolitan guest in human habitation. ... The dust jacket (sometimes dust wrapper, abbreviated dj or dw) of a hardback book is the paper, usually illustrated and including front and back flaps, that protects the binding of the book from scratches. ... Porous chondrite interplanetary dust particle. ... Interstellar cloud is the generic name given to an accumulation of gas, plasma and dust in our and other galaxies. ... In general relativity, a dust solution is an exact solution of the Einstein field equation in which the gravitational field is produced entirely by the mass, momentum, and stress density of a perfect fluid which has positive mass density but vanishing pressure. ... In special and general relativity, dust is the name conventionally given to a configuration of matter which can be interpreted as small bodies (dust particles) which interact only gravitationally. ...

Music

• Dust (band), a 70s hard rock group
• Dust (Screaming Trees album)
• Dust (Mourning Beloveth album)

At the dawn of the 70s, hard rock and early heavy metal were almost completely dominated by British innovators. ... Dust is the seventh and final album by the Screaming Trees, released on June 25, 1996. ... Dust is the debut album by Irish doom metal band Mourning Beloveth. ...

Books and comics

• Dust (His Dark Materials), a fictional form of matter in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
• Dust (novel), by Charles Pellegrino
• Dust (comics), a character in the Marvel Comics X-Men franchise
• Dust (Image Comics), a comic book series from Image Comics

Spoiler warning: Dust in Philip Pullmans trilogy of novels His Dark Materials is a fictional form of dark matter (as we call it in our world), an elementary particle that is of fundamental importance to the novels. ... Dust is a science fiction novel by Charles Pellegrino depicting collapse of the planets ecosystem due to the disappearance of insects. ... Dust (real name Sooraya Qadir) is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe. ... Image Comics is an American comic book publisher. ...

Film, Television and computer games

• Dust (1985 film), based on J. M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country
• Dust (2001 film) (Прашина), directed by Milčo Mančevski
• Dust (2005 film) (Пыль), directed by Serguei Loban (Russia)
• Dust (Babylon 5), an illegal fictional drug in the Babylon 5 television series
• Dust (The Twilight Zone), an episode of The Twilight Zone
• Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, a PC adventure game

In the Heart of the Country (1977) is a novel by J. M. Coetzee which delves in the complex relationships that form between the colonizer and the colonized. ... Dust (Macedonian: , Latinic: Prašina; Prashina) is a 2001 Macedonian film starring Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Adrian Lester, Anne Brochet, Nikolina Kujaca, Vera Farmiga and Rosemary Murphy. ... In the Babylon 5 science fiction saga, Dust was an illegal drug designed to activate latent telepathy genes in mundanes, temporarily giving them the power of telepathy. ... “Dust” is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone. ...

Other uses

• Angel Dust, a term for Phencyclidine (PCP), a psychoactive drug.

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