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  2. Gas duster - Wikipedia

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    A gas duster, also known as tinned wind, compressed air, or canned air, is a product used for cleaning or dusting electronic equipment and other sensitive devices that cannot be cleaned using water. This type of product is most often packaged as a can that, when a trigger is pressed, blasts a stream of compressed gas through a nozzle at the top.

  3. Aerial application - Wikipedia

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    A PZL-106 Kruk crop duster applying a fine mist A Mil Mi-8 spreading fertilizer. Aerial application, or what is informally referred to as crop dusting, [1] involves spraying crops with crop protection products from an agricultural aircraft. Planting certain types of seed are also included in aerial application.

  4. NASA Study on Air-Purifying Houseplants Debunked: Here's the ...

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    There are also plants with medicinal properties, like iron-rich fenugreek, tummy-soothing peppermint and the gel produced by the aloe vera plant. And finally, there’s the integral part plants ...

  5. Agricultural aircraft - Wikipedia

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    An agricultural aircraft is an aircraft that has been built or converted for agricultural use – usually aerial application of pesticides (crop dusting) or fertilizer (aerial topdressing); in these roles, they are referred to as "crop dusters" or "top dressers".

  6. NASA Clean Air Study - Wikipedia

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    Since the release of the initial 1989 study, titled A study of interior landscape plants for indoor air pollution abatement: An Interim Report, [6] further research has been done including a 1993 paper [7] and 1996 book [8] by B. C. Wolverton, the primary researcher on the original NASA study, that listed additional plants and focused on the removal of specific chemicals.

  7. Talk:Gas duster - Wikipedia

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    this is kinda late to answer your question, but dry ice is typically made from waste CO2 from the manufacture process involved with synthesizing ammonia from natural gas, the waste CO2 from the process is often shipped to soda plants and dry ice plants, if dry ice is placed in a suitable pressure vessel with a suitable spray head and release ...

  8. Nyctinasty - Wikipedia

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    It has been argued that for plants that display foliar nyctinasty, it is a crucial mechanism for survival; however, most plants do not exhibit any nyctinastic movements. [1] Nyctinasty is found in a range of plant species and across xeric , mesic , and aquatic environments, suggesting that this singular behavior may serve a variety of ...

  9. Aerosol spray dispenser - Wikipedia

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    Canned air / dusters do not contain air, and are dangerous, even deadly, to inhale. [24] Aerosol cans have three main areas of health concern: Contents may be deliberately inhaled to achieve intoxication from the propellant (known as inhalant abuse or "huffing"). Calling them "canned air" or "cans of compressed air" could mislead the ignorant ...