The phrase "absorbing dust" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a process or action where something is taking in or collecting dust, often in a literal sense related to cleaning or maintenance.
Example: "The old books on the shelf were absorbing dust, indicating they hadn't been touched in years."
Alternatives: "collecting dust" or "gathering dust".
And if they will not sell, well, let them lie around, absorb dust, rot, and disintegrate.
The intake of oxygen encourages air circulation and the stoves absorb dust.
Her parents threw out everything else because paper is porous and might have absorbed dust from the collapsing World Trade Center towers that blasted into their Lower Manhattan apartment through an open window.
Apart from offering privacy, trees and plants absorb dust and provide a place for birds to nest and insects to feed.
Memory foam is excellent for people with allergies because they will not absorb dust and other particles like traditional pillow materials.
Boeri explains that the Bosco Verticale "hands over to vegetation itself the task of absorbing the dust in the air and of creating an adequate micro-climate in order to filter out the sunlight.
Variables included monthly means (long-term averages) of absolute humidity, absorbing aerosols (dust) and rainfall, and land-surface maps of land-cover type and population density (Table 1).
However, since the UV photons are easily scattered and absorbed by dust grains, the SFR of galaxies is always inevitably affected by dust produced by their own SF activity.
With the availability of mid and far-IR data for large samples of galaxies, new codes are emerging that combine stellar and dust emission on the basis of the balance between the stellar luminosity absorbed by dust and the corresponding luminosity re-emitted in the IR.
Stellar light, in particular at shorter wavelengths, is absorbed by dust and re-emitted as a far-infrared thermal emission from the dust (e.g., Witt and Gordon, 2000, and references therein).
