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2 unusual facts about Dust


Dust-Off

Dust-Off is a brand of dust cleaner (refrigerant-based propellant cleaner, which is not compressed air and incorrectly called "canned air") containing difluoroethane; it is used to remove particulates and dust from computers and electronic equipment.

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Fidget (Kimlinh Tran), the sword's guardian, acts as a companion for Dust and can use magical attacks.


Alfred Balk

Among other prominent articles, for The Reader’s Digest he reported on nursing-home neglect, threats to public parkland, Great Lakes water problems, boating-boom safety hazards, and Thomas Edison remembered by a son; for The Reporter, the social significance of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson’s success; and for The New York Times Magazine, the “Dust Bowl” revisited.

Arnold Wilson Cowen

Judge Cowen was interviewed to describe his experiences of the Dust Bowl for the television series The American Experience in a documentary entitled "Surviving the Dust Bowl", which aired in 1998.

Ashes to Ashes

It is based on scriptural texts such as "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" (Genesis 3:19), and "I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee" (Ezekiel 28:18).

Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust contains thematic similarities to Knut Hamsun's 1890 novel Hunger.

Bentham Science Publishers

In 2007, the Bentham Open Science journal, The Open Chemical Physics Journal, published a study contending dust from the World Trade Center attacks contained "active nanothermite".

Bloodhound Mystery

British artist Denis McLoughlin served as art director for Boardman Books and provided many of the dust jacket illustrations.

Cities in Dust

"Cities in Dust" was also revisited by Brazilian band Pato Fu, for their album Daqui Pro Futuro in 2007 and the song was performed live by The Start in 2008.

Coalworker's pneumoconiosis

Following observations on industry workers in Lucknow (India), experiments on rats found that jaggery (a traditional sugar) had a preventive action against the harmful effects of coal dust.

In the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, the U.S. Congress set up standards to reduce dust and created the Black Lung Disability Trust.

Digital ICE

LaserSoft Imaging released an infrared dust and scratch removal tool (iSRD - infrared Smart Removal of Defects) in 2008, that allows Nikon's film scanners for Mac OS X, as well as many scanners from other manufacturers to make high quality scans of Kodachrome slides.

Dirt

The centrepiece was an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection showing pictures and histories of notable dirt such as the great dust heaps at Euston and King's Cross in the 19th century and the Fresh Kills landfill which was once the world's largest.

Dust Muhammad

The emperor Humayun sitting on some stone likeness of the throne, and in the distance under the trees playing three boys, one of whom the future Emperor Akbar I. Restless nature Doust Muhammad gave him root and in the court of the Mughal emperors - in the early 1560s, is already under Emperor Akbar I, Dust Muhammad left India and returned to Iran, where he lived out the last days in Qazvin.

Dust storm

Dust storms are not limited to Earth and have been known to form on other planets such as Mars.

Fairy Dust

Fairy Dust is a women's fragrance from Parlux Fragrances released in October 2008, and is the sixth fragrance to be endorsed by Paris Hilton, following Can Can.

Florence May Harding

In the 1930s her interest in the native vegetation of the Broken Hill region was further spurred by the actions of Albert Morris, who was determined to control the city’s dust problem.

Fort Peck Dam

M.R. Montgomery, Personal History, "Impalpable Dust," The New Yorker, March 27, 1989, p.

Gabriele Pepe

On February 19, 1826, he duelled with the poet Alphonse de Lamartine, who had compared Italians to "human dust" in his poem "Le Dernier Chant du pélerinage d'Harold".

George L. Willard

The 3rd Brigade marched northward in heat and dust of the summer of 1863, halting at Uniontown, Maryland, on June 30.

Goofer dust

The X-Files, in Episode 14 of season 7 (Theef), referenced the use of goofer dust by the vengeful father of a woman who died due to poor hospital care.

Hejran Dust

Hejran Dust was not on the unpaved road, which used by muleteers carrying goods between Kaleybar and surrounding villages.

Izetta Jewel

The following season she played opposite Skinner in Charles Frohman’s production of Sire at the Criterion Theatre and in 1912 with James K. Hackett in The Grain of Dust also staged at the Criterion.

Jingle Jangle Comics

His experience included painting the first edition dust jacket for Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and ghosting the newspaper strip Reg’lar Fellas for artist Gene Byrnes.

John Zarnecki

In 1981, he moved to the University of Kent in Canterbury and became the project manager for the Dust Impact Detection System on board the Giotto probe that visited Halley's Comet.

Julie Dash

Dash's book Daughters of the Dust: A Novel (1997) is a sequel to the film, set 20 years later in Harlem and the Sea Islands.

Kinnal Craft

Jute rags, soaked, slivered into pieces, dried, powdered, and mixed with saw dust and tamarind seed paste is made into kitta.

Kundt's tube

The tube is a transparent horizontal pipe which contains a small amount of a fine powder such as cork dust, talc or Lycopodium.

Lorgnette

The lorgnette was employed as a prop and affectation by early 20th century trial lawyer Earl Rogers, and one is featured on the front cover dust jacket of his biography, Final Verdict, by his daughter Adela Rogers St. Johns.

M4 carbine

While only 100 troops were asked, they fought at least a dozen intense engagements in Helmand Province, where the ground is covered in fine powdered sand (called "moon dust" by troops) that can stick to firearms.

Mark Parnell

He also represented the Whyalla Red Dust Action Group Inc in its long-running campaign for environmental justice over OneSteel (formerly BHP) dust emissions from the Whyalla Steelworks.

Mazzy Star discography

 47 in October 2011 when it was featured on the U.K.-exclusive trailer "Dust to Dust" for Gears of War 3.

Meteor shower

In the 1890s, Irish astronomer George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911) and British astronomer Arthur Matthew Weld Downing (1850–1917), were the first to attempt to calculate the position of the dust at Earth's orbit.

Pastures of Plenty

The line "we come with the dust and we go with the wind" reappears as "that come with the dust and are gone with the wind" in Bob Dylan's Song to Woody.

Paul J. Lioy

In collaboration with multiple laboratories, Dr. Lioy examined the composition and size distribution of the WTC dust in detail for inorganic, organic and ionic species.

Permutation City

It focuses on a model of consciousness and reality, the Dust Theory, similar to the Ultimate Ensemble Mathematical Universe hypothesis proposed by Max Tegmark.

Son Song

In this song, co-writers Max Cavalera and Sean Lennon sing about everything turning to dust by screaming at the sky or looking at the sun.

Song to Woody

The line "that come with the dust and are gone with the wind" quotes the line "we come with the dust and we go with the wind" in Guthrie's song "Pastures of Plenty".

Spencer, South Dakota

It began as a large, dust-cloaked tornado NW of Farmer, South Dakota in Hanson County, concurrent with the demise of the "Fulton" tornado.

Stockwood Park

The knots were planted out with germander, hyssop and box with the open spaces filled with brick dust or crushed shells to contrast the greenery.

The Dust Diaries

The Dust Diaries is an award-winning book by Owen Sheers, published in 2004.

The Farewell Sermon

Man is born from Adam (Adem) and Eve, Muhammad said, and both of these parents, and all of humans, are made of dust, and in this right, no one person is better than the other.

Thomas Platts-Mills

Platts-Mills has researched the immune response to a range of allergens including those from pollens, dust mites, the fungus Trichophyton, and domestic cats.

Three Chords and a Cloud of Dust II

The title stems from their original Epic Records live release Three Chords and a Cloud of Dust; both recordings were done at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio.

Tony Mendez

2003, with Jonna Mendez and Bruce B. Henderson, Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations that Helped Win the Cold War

Tristan Bancks

In 1999, Tristan left London to return to Australia to appear in Ivan Sen's short drama Dust as well as Beneath Clouds and Remote Area Nurse.

Vega 1

The dust mass spectrometer detected material similar to the composition of carbonaceous chondrites meteorites and also detected clathrate ice.

Walt Langendorfer

More recently, the US Asymmetric Warfare Group purchased the Gas-OperatedHK 416, a M4/M16 type rifle made by Heckler & Koch using the short stroke gas piston system after intensive tests demonstrating the superiority of this system in adverse conditions (dust, sand, intensive use without maintenance)

William Mellis Christie

In October 1934, George Morrow and his brother Frederick K. Morrow owned the Christie, Brown Company, and had controlling interest in the Gold Dust Corporation, the American Linseed Company, the Standard Milling Company, the Ward Baking Company, United Cigar Stores Limited, and United Stores, Inc.

X-Men: The End

Jean Grey (Phoenix), Marvel Girl, Gambit and Rogue, Havok and Lorna, Alpha Flight, Professor X and Cassandra, Storm, Archangel with Husk, Cyclops, Madelyne, Dust, Cable, Lilandra, Sage, Colossus, Hub, and a few others are shown above the crowd looking down from the other side, as it were.

You've Come a Long Way, Baby

"Gangster Trippin" contains samples of "Entropy", written and performed by DJ Shadow (Josh Davis), and "Beatbox Wash", written and performed by the Dust Junkys (Sam Brox, Ganiyu Pierre Gasper, Stephen Jones, Nicholas Lockett and Myke Wilson).


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