Sentence examples for microscopic dust from inspiring English sources

The group said that high pollution levels caused exposure to microscopic dust that embedded itself in the lungs, leading to increased hospitalization for asthma, lung disease, chronic bronchitis and heart damage, and that they could cause lung cancer.

Cheri Wright, the marketing director for Kaz, the company that makes Honeywell's air purifiers, said the devices scrub indoor air of microscopic dust, pollen, mold spores and other particles.

The new Guardian from Electrolux ($1,499) comes with a 25-year warranty, as well as a True-HEPA air-filtration system, which means that it is designed to absorb 99.97 percent of the microscopic dust particles (plus mites, pollen, bacteria) in the air in your home -- not to mention dust bunnies under the bed.

He is so over the moon about being a Patriot — hey, in the game of NFLopoly he got a Get Away From Bengals Jail Free card — and Coach Bill Belichick has not yet ground every last bit of his personality into microscopic dust.

The asteroid belt is home to rocky bodies ranging in size from the largest known asteroid, Ceres (also classified by the IAU as a dwarf planet), with a diameter of roughly 940 km (585 miles), to microscopic dust particles that are dispersed throughout the belt.

The researchers hope this microscopic dust could have come from the asteroid.

The other established new limits on microscopic dust-like specks called particulates.

Most experts agree that the solar system's most ancient rocks from asteroids and comets should be sprinkled with microscopic diamond dust, a remnant of ancient stars.

Three years ago, microscopist Zurong Dai of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and his colleagues decided to extend the diamond hunt to microscopic interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) that flaked off asteroids and comets and now sift down through the stratosphere.

When the toxic soup of chemical particles and liquid droplets emitted by cars, power plants, fires and factories known as particulate matter is inhaled, the microscopic toxic dust can irritate nasal passages and result in an allergic-type response to the pollution, with symptoms like coughing and a runny nose.

Others are teasing out the microscopic contents of dust scooped from sills, floors and rubble heaps in downtown Manhattan.