Dust vs Ozone - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
(countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
* 2010 , Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England (page 150)
(obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
* Shakespeare
The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
* Bible, Job vii. 21
The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
* Tennyson
(figurative) Something worthless.
* Shakespeare
(figurative) A low or mean condition.
* Bible, 1 Sam. ii. 8
(slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
(mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
To remove dust from.
* , chapter=12
, title= To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
To leave; to rush off.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), (The Big Sleep) , Penguin 2011, p. 75:
To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
(chemistry) An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O3) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a blue gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.
(from an erroneous former belief that seaweed contains and releases ozone) Fresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed.
* 1875 , (William Crookes), The Chemical News ,
* 1888 , L. T. Meade, A. Balfour Symington, Edwin Oliver, , Volume 1,
* 2007 , Robert Douglas, Tales of the Unexpected'', ''Somewhere to Lay My Head ,
As nouns the difference between dust and ozone
is that dust is fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc while ozone is an allotrope of oxygen (symbol O3) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a blue gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.As a verb dust
is to remove dust from.dust
English
Noun
- once they start school, I mean you can do a room out one day, the next day it only needs a dust , doesn't it?
- to touch a dust of England's ground
- I shall sleep in the dust .
- And you may carve a shrine about my dust .
- And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust .
- [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust .
Derived terms
* angel dust * bite the dust * catch dust * dust ball * dustbin, dust bin * dust devil * dustbowl, dust bowl * dust bunny * dust filter * dustman * dust mask * dustpan * duststorm * dust trap * dust-up * dusty * fairy dust * goofer dust * pixie dust * smart dust, smartdust * stardust * turn to dustVerb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
- He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust . I'd like to talk to you a little, soldier.’
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Derived terms
* dust off * dusterSee also
* vacuum cleanerozone
English
Noun
(wikipedia ozone) (-)page 99,
- A patent obtained in England, and specified far from clearly, for obtaining ozone' by boiling seaweed,†† may be mentioned as a curiosity, and also the credulity with which ' ozone -baths, prepared in this manner, find a ready sale, in spite of, or perhaps rather on account of, their high price.
page 674,
- To Ramsgate baths she sped, in quest / Of seaweed and ozone' ; / For seaweed and ' ozone were best, / They said, to give her tone.
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- It's got the lot: fresh sea air, ozone , seaweed. You could cut the air with a knife.