Does it just get re-circulated? You clean your place and make your neighbour’s place dirty, and vice versa?
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The biological components are consumed by microbes and recirculated in the biomass. The mineral components are either disolved by water or become part of the soil in the form of clay or silt.
So if you are talking about dust in your house. You are responsible a lot of that. You shed dead skin constantly replenishing dust in your house.
Dust blows into the ice in Alaska and plants start to grow. Creates the tundra we see today with permefrost below
Dust particles or “lithometeors” play a significant role in weather too. A high concentration of dust plays a vital role in aviation visibility restrictions, especially in middle eastern countries. They can combine with water vapor to cause dense haze or fog in some coastal regions.
They can do the same thing and combine with water vapor in the atmosphere to form a CCN (cloud condensation nuclei), which aids in cloud formation. An example of this would be thunderstorms around large forest fires. The rising heat from the fire causes an unstable atmosphere, and all the added lithometeors from the fire combined with the existing water vapor in the air to create clouds and even thunderstorms.
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Ends up in the wind?
Make your neighbor’s place dirty? The word Earth means dirt. Dust means fine particles of solid matter. Our entire universe is made up of matter of various sizes (along with energy).
creates new dust by turning into dirt again when it rains, falls into lakes, trampled by large animals, eaten by decomposers, etc
More importantly, where did all the dust come from?
Well.. space. The earth attracts tons and tons of dust to it every day. It settles upon and around us. Adding all the dust put into the atmosphere from industry, cars and power generation and you get what you are seeing now.
What you capture in your vacuum or sweep up and put in the bin, makes its way to landfill and eventually becomes part of the earth again.
[Here is your book.](https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?mtype=B&keyword=secret+life+of+dust&hs.x=0&hs.y=0) Here you will learn that some of the dust entering your nose may have been camel dander from Saudi Arabia, or wheat pollen from Ukraine. Fascinating book.
Most dust eventually turns into sediment, which (very) eventually will turn into rock. Sometimes, though, persistent winds deliver it to places where it just builds up. Where the dust has accumulated and not consolidated it’s called “loess”. I have friends with a place that’s in the [Palouse loess deposit](https://wa100.dnr.wa.gov/columbia-basin/loess). It develops a thin surface crust, but break through that and it’s just fluffy dust all the way down. The dust in their house is absolutely and positively mostly mineral.
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