You go into a room that hasn’t had folks in it for 10 years and there is dust everywhere. I thought it was skin cells but obviously not.
Even rooms with no access to the outside have dust.
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Do you know that “fresh” air that everyone goes on about? You know, “open the window and let some fresh air in.”
Well, it is full of dust. Absolutely stinking full of dust. It is kept aloft by air movement and is unnoticeable. Shut that open window though and the air stops moving. The dust settles out. Things get dusty.
I remember an interview with a weird guy called Quentin “something.” It was commented on that he never dusted. He said no, never. It gets to a certain point where it doesn’t get worse. Well, that’s a point of view indeed
Houses have small gaps in them, mostly intentional like air bricks and ventilation, otherwise you’d have a lot of mold and really poor air quality.
Air from the outside brings in dust particles into the house, not really noticable normally but a house left for years it will build up.
Law of Entropy says that when left alone in natural states, eventually everything goes into disorder.
The second law of thermodynamics states that as energy is transferred or transformed, more and more of it is wasted.
Everything returns to chaos
Any place that air can move through will gather dust, because air carries dust everywhere it goes.
Where does air get dust? From everything it touches. Stone, wood, grass, hair, skin – dust is basically erosion.
It is mostly dead cells though, to be honest. In your house, most of the dust is from the people who live there.
Every house has a different smell. Why does dust always smell the same though, that is the question.
Dust is not any one thing. It’s tiny particles suspended in the air. Yes some of it is skin cells, some of it is air, some of it is dirt, some of it is pollen, some of it is just pretty much anything that’s been ground to dust, very small particles, and swept up by the air and taken everywhere. Keeping dust to a minimum in a closed off space requires that it’s more or less airtight, as in no new air is coming in and the air inside is stagnant and not moving. That won’t prevent the dust that is already in there from settling but it will mostly prevent new dust from entering.
Carpet fibres, even wall and ceiling stuff. Everything is dust if it’s small enough. You are breathing in shit you can’t see so when it falls on a surface it becomes dust!
The majority of dust in your house is your own dead skin cells. Nothing you can do about this.
When I was in Arizona everything had dust this dust is more dirt. Dust everywhere. In the northeast dust is like not a thing.
Even if you seal a room and open after a few years, you will have a layer of dust. This all the dust in the now still air which floats and settles down.
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