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020			_a9781529362664
082			_a304.28 _bOWE
100			_aOwens, Jay
245			_aDust : the modern world in a trillion particles
260			_bHodder & Stoughton, _c2023 _aLondon :
300			_a392 p. ; _bill., _c20 cm
365			_b799.00 _c₹ _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFour-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from the birth of the sun. Within the next hundred years, human life on swathes of the earth's surface will also end, in a haze of heat, drought and, again, dust. Dust is the legacy of twentieth-century progress and a profound threat to life in the twenty-first. And yet it's something we hardly ever consider - so small and so mundane as to be beyond the threshold of thought. All of history is recorded in the dust we create: the pollution we make, the fires we start, the chemicals we use, the volcanoes that erupt. Now, for the first time DUST will examine this substance and reveal it's importance and the fascinating stories it has.
650			_aDust
650			_aEarth Sciences
650			_aAgriculture
650			_aAgronomy
650			_aSoil Science
650			_aEcology
650			_aGlobal Warming
650			_aClimate Change
650			_aBiotic communities
650			_aHealth aspects
650			_aEnvironmental aspects
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