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MINE DUST

Specialty Definition: MINE DUST

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Mining

A. Dust from rock drills, blasting, or handling rock b. In the quantity inhaled by workers, dust may be classified as dangerous, harmless, and borderline, although the classification is purely arbitrary. Silica is a dangerous dust and aluminum hydroxide is borderline c. Scot. Calcined ironstone screenings. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MINE DUST

Specialty definitions using "MINE DUST": black spitcoal miner's pneumoconiosis, coal worker's pneumoconiosis, coal workers'pneumoconiosis, coalworker's pneumoconiosis, coal-workers'pneumoconiosis, coalworkers'pneumoconiosis, collier's anthracosis, collier's asthma, collier's lung, collier's phthisis, colliers'anthracosis, colliers'asthma, colliers'black spit, colliers'lung, colliers'phtisisexplosion proofminers'asthma, miners'black lung, miners'dyspnea. (references)

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Photo Album: MINE DUST

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Pneumoconiosis, or Black Lung Disease, is a job related disease caused by continued exposure to excessive amounts of coal mine dust. This dust becomes imbedded in the lungs, causing them to harden, making breathing very difficult. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Anagrams: MINE DUST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mistuned.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-n-s-t-u"

-1 letter: dunites, dustmen, mindset, minuets, minuted, minutes, mistend, mistune, mutined, mutines, tediums.

-2 letters: demits, denims, dunite, duties, indues, medius, minted, minuet, minute, misted, musted, mutine, nudest, nudies, nudism, nudist, suited, tedium, teinds, tenuis, undies, united, unites, untied, unties.

-3 letters: deism, deist, demit, denim, dents, diets, dimes, dines, dints, disme, dites, duets, duits, dunes, dunts.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-n-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: rudiments.

 

+2 letters: dentaliums, dismounted, magnitudes, miscounted, seminudity, submediant, undomestic.

 

+3 letters: adventurism, diminutives, eudaemonist, inducements, mediastinum, misbuttoned, misjudgment, mundanities, submediants.

 

+4 letters: adventurisms, antependiums, desquamating, desquamation, disbursement, disguisement, drumbeatings, edutainments, eudaemonists, impoundments, instrumented, misadventure, misconducted, misconstrued, miseducating, miseducation, misjudgments, mountainside, pseudonymity, reductionism, seminudities.

 

+5 letters: circumstanced, demodulations, desquamations, diathermanous, disburdenment, disbursements, disfigurement, disguisements, documentalist, documentaries, documentarist, eudaemonistic, hemodilutions, medicamentous, misadventures, miseducations, misfunctioned, misunderstand, misunderstood, moribundities, mountainsides, multistranded, pneumonitides, reductionisms, semiconductor, unassimilated, underestimate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MINE DUST


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 49 4E 45      44 55 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01000100 01010101 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#32 &#68 &#85 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 004E 0045      0044 0055 0053 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47434839238555354

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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