Word: dust

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Fine powder. "A comet's tail consists of gas and dust."


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      1. I suppose I'm not just concerned about the fact that the explanatory gloss here given for "dust" is literally just "fine powder" (and the fact that in English the two are virtually synonymous anyway, the result of nothing more than a classic Germanic-Romance semantic doublet), but also about the potential in practice for splitting votes between the two.

        1. Rhona: True. I wouldn't have suggested "dust" if I'd noticed "powder."

          The only distinction between the two is subtleties of usage. If it's a useful man-made product, we usually call it powder, especially that made by pulverization. If it's naturally occurring, it's usually dust, especially when it's a nuisance. But I see no reason why these distinctions should matter to a Klingon, so I'm all for adding "dust" to the request for "powder" and deleting this request.

  1. I'd go with {ngat}, too. On occasion, I also sometimes use {DIHom} for any nondescript pulverized matter, especially if the degree of coarseness isn't homogeneous.

    1. ngat means any one of two very specific types of granulated matter. DIHom could theoretically work but the size of it could range substantially larger than dust.

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