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Ann wrote:

Bondo Cain wrote:
So tell me exactly, how does 'dust' evaporate?

The hard ultraviolet radiation and strong stellar winds from massive stars "cook" the dust into much smaller particles. It would be sort of dumping your house into a nuclear reactor until it came out in very, very small pieces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkerbell wrote:
<<Tinker Bell, is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan . Fairies can enable others to fly by sprinkling them with fairy dust. Tinker Bell was a fairy who mended pots and kettles, like an actual tinker. Her speech consists of the sounds of a tinkling bell, which is understandable only to those familiar with the language of the fairies. In the original stage productions, she was represented on stage by a darting light "created by a small mirror held in the hand off-stage and reflecting a little circle of light from a powerful lamp" and her voice was "a collar of bells". However, a Miss 'Jane Wren' was listed among the cast on the programmes as playing Tinker Bell: this was a joke which fooled HM Inspector of Taxes who sent Jane Wren a tax demand.

zbvhs wrote:What is "dust"? Is it the microscopic wind-blown dirt we think of or is it something larger, up to say, planet-size or bigger?

zbvhs wrote:What is "dust"? Is it the microscopic wind-blown dirt we think of or is it something larger, up to say, planet-size or bigger?

Bondo Cain wrote:So tell me exactly, how does 'dust' evaporate?