"thin dust" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific type of dust, namely dust that is thin or not very thick. This phrase can be used in various contexts, including descriptions of the environment or in metaphors. Example 1: "As I walked along the dirt road, I could feel the thin dust rising up and coating my shoes." Example 2: "The old attic was covered in a layer of thin dust, evidence that it had been neglected for years." Example 3: "The traveler rode through the desert, the thin dust swirling behind his horse's hooves." Example 4: "Her memories were like thin dust, easily blown away and forgotten."
Its moderate thermal inertia suggests that the boulders are very porous or blanketed by thin dust.
However, we shouldn't forget that even the 2001 global dust storms on Mars moved only the equivalent of a very thin dust layer - about 3 mm thick if deposited with uniform thickness between 58 degrees N and S of the equator.
The most important result of this investigation is that the only models that satisfy all the observational constraints require thin dust shells with relatively large inner radii composed of grains with about one-half the graphite/silicate abundance ratio of the MRN-DL mixture for the diffuse interstellar medium.
Other analyses suggest the comet's surface is largely water-ice covered with a thin dust layer.
Because dust particles settle toward the midplane because of the vertical gravity to form a thin dust layer, the regions outside of the dust layer are scarcely affected by the back-reaction of the dust.
It needs to be emphasised however, that the lack of crystalline silicate features in the infrared spectrum does not mean that the crystalline silicates are absent; in particular in optically thin dust shells, they may simply be colder than the amorphous silicates (Kemper et al., 2001).
The first is in the far north and northeast, under the influence of extremely cold and relatively dry air, where only a thin dusting of winter snow and a meagre fall of summer rain occur.
The Scots roll them in oatmeal and sauté them, while others smear their interiors with mustard or pack their insides with herbs, coat them with a little panko or a thin dusting of bread crumbs and deep-fry them.
Laura Miller responded in Salon that the real question is why publishing is a field that does not attract men: Could it be the low pay, low status and ridiculous hours?… The profession has come to look a lot like a skilled, pink-collar ghetto, albeit garnished with a thin dusting of reflected glamor….
OUAHIGOUYA, Burkina Faso, 10 September 2012 - A thin dusting of bright green shoots covers the sandy plains around Ouahigouya, in northwest Burkina Faso.
Education a first step to improving nutrition security in Burkina Faso OUAHIGOUYA, Burkina Faso, 10 September 2012 - A thin dusting of bright green shoots covers the sandy plains around Ouahigouya, in northwest Burkina Faso.
