What is dust, and why doesn't the world run out of it?!
Question: I LOVE your question! I've been picking it up for years, and enough is enough!. I think it is dead flakes of skin, and if you are alive, you will keep making dust. Maybe,LOL, we vacuum it up, it goes to the landfill, and and the let it out and it just blows back! It's also blown sand and dirt. Perhaps a change of attitude is in store. Maybe we should cherish our dust, as we cherish our dead. You could pick up a very dusty statuette, point to it and say, "That was me when I was 3-years-old.
Answers: I LOVE your question! I've been picking it up for years, and enough is enough!. I think it is dead flakes of skin, and if you are alive, you will keep making dust. Maybe,LOL, we vacuum it up, it goes to the landfill, and and the let it out and it just blows back! It's also blown sand and dirt. Perhaps a change of attitude is in store. Maybe we should cherish our dust, as we cherish our dead. You could pick up a very dusty statuette, point to it and say, "That was me when I was 3-years-old.
if you mean house dust its made up from discarded skin cells, dirt off your clothes and shoes, pet hair, fluff from clothes. so there is always more dust building up.
Yes, dust is actually dead skin (mainly). But since we keep our homes so clean, critters such as mites which eat the dust cannot do their job. I guess it's one thing we have to live with.
If you were to examine dust under a microscope you would find a variety of things. The largest component would be shed human skin cells. In addition you would find living dust mites, parts of dead dust mites, and dust mite feces. There would also be little bits of grain, pollens, and a stray mold spore or two. You would also see carpet fibers, fibers from clothing, and a little fur from the household pets.
The world isn't going to run out of dust, because humans shed their skin continually (unlike a snake). So as long as we are shedding dust mites are going to have food. This insures that our dust will always have at least skin and mites as well as their parts and feces.
Sooooo, no break on the dusting anytime soon!
dead skin cells, dead organic matter, cosmic dust
all minutely broken down over time
dudt to dust we shall return
because it's old skin- to get rid of it we'd have to get rid of ourselves!