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Complex Mixtures > Particulate Matter > Dust > Cosmic Dust
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Extraterrestrial Environment > Cosmic Dust
Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Extraterrestrial Environment > Cosmic Dust
Physical Phenomena > Astronomical Phenomena > Astronomical Objects > Extraterrestrial Environment > Cosmic Dust

Preferred term

Cosmic Dust  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Dust, Interplanetary
  • Dust, Interstellar
  • Dusts, Interplanetary
  • Dusts, Interstellar
  • Interplanetary Dust
  • Interplanetary Dusts
  • Interstellar Dust
  • Interstellar Dusts

Scope note

  • Finely divided solid matter with particle sizes smaller than a micrometeorite, thus with diameters much smaller than a millimeter, moving in interplanetary space. (NASA Thesaurus, 1994)

History note

  • 97

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019443

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