Compressed air blows away any factory gnorts, the body is inspected for tiny defects and degreased using an environmentally safe water-based solution and surfaces are wiped with tack cloth in between each process to remove dust.

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"I had to remove all the dust and scratches that had accumulated over that time, " he said.

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To kill dust mites and remove allergens in sheets and blankets, Thorne says wash with hot water.

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Editors who often work with scanned prints and negatives might find the Visualize Spots tool to be quite useful, which helps you easily identify dust spots and remove them, while perfectionists can take advantage of Upright, the app's new perspective shift technology -- it's some crazy voodoo code that more or less works like magic (see screenshot above).

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This year the students had to program their SPHERES to deploy dust clouds that could remove space junk from orbit, dock with another satellite to harvest its parts, and maneuver through an unknown field full of debris.

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If a rock has a coating of dust, hundreds of repeated pulses from the laser can remove those layers.

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Within minutes of the collapse, people poured in the doors, seeking shelter from dust that became so deep that hotel workers used snow shovels to remove it from the front steps.

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For years, public health researchers have been running projects that demonstrate that asthma symptoms can be substantially reduced by working in homes to remove or clean moldy carpets, provide indoor air filters and reduce infestations of dust mites and cockroaches.

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The caesium finds its way into tiny pores on the surface, and the only way to remove it effectively is to grind off the surface, a difficult procedure which can create contaminated dust.

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