Dust (disambiguation)
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Dust consists of fine, solid particles of matter borne in the air 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, whirlwind
- Dust storm, meteorological phenomenon caused by strong winds blowing dust
- Mineral dust, atmospheric aerosols of mineral origin
- Dust mite, arachnid living in and feeding off domestic dust
- Dust jacket, protective cover for a book
Dust may also refer to:
Religion
- Christian Bible; Genesis 2:7: "...the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature."
- Christian Bible; Genesis 3:19: "...you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
- Muslim Quran; dust is referred to in verse (35:11) of chapter (35) sūrat fāṭir (The Originator): "And Allah created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop; then He made you mates."
Science
- 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
- Cantor dust, a zero-measure 2D fractal
Technology
- Smart Dust or Dust Networks, low-power, wireless mesh network of sub-millimeter sensors
Music
- Dust (band), 70s hard rock group
- Dust (Dust album), 1971
- "Dust" (Royworld song)
- "Dust" (Eli Young Band song)
- Dust (Screaming Trees album), 1996
- Dust (Ben Monder album), 1997
- Dust (Peter Murphy album), 2002
- Dust (DJ Muggs album), 2003
- Dust (Benjy Davis Project album), 2007
- Dust (Ellen Allien album), 2010
- Dust (Peatbog Faeries album), 2011
- Dust (Laurel Halo album), 2017
- "Dust", a single by Van Hunt from the 2004 album Van Hunt
Books, comics, plays
- Dust (Pellegrino novel), a novel by Charles R. Pellegrino
- Dust (novel), a novel by Patricia Cornwell
- Dust, the first novel in the Jacob's Ladder Trilogy by Elizabeth Bear
- Dust (comics), character in the X-Men franchise
- Dust, a 2007 novel by Martha Grimes
- Dust (Image Comics), comic book series from Image Comics
- Dust (His Dark Materials), fictional form of matter in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
- Dust, a 2013 novel in the Silo series by Hugh Howey
- Dust, a 2001 novel by Arthur Slade
Film, television and video games
Films
- Dust (1985 film), based on J. M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country
- Dust (2001 film) (Прашина), directed by Milčo Mančevski
- Toz (film), a 2005 Turkish film, also known as Dust
- Dust (2005 film) (Пыль), directed by Serguei Loban (Russia)
- Dust (2009 film), a 2009 film by Luxembourgian director Max Jacoby
- Dust (2012 film), a 2012 Guatemalan film
Television
- "Dust" (The Twilight Zone), a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone
- "Dust" (Sliders), a 2000 episode of Sliders
Video games
- Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, a 1995 PC adventure game
- Dust II, a map in the online multiplayer first-person shooter Counter-Strike
- Dust 514, an MMO/FPS console game developed by CCP
- Dust: An Elysian Tail, a 2012 video game
Other uses
- Angel dust, a term for phencyclidine
- Dust, the lowest possible grade of tea
- "Dust", a poem by Rupert Brooke
See also
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