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The sight of mold inside your home can be extremely unsettling. What’s worse, mold can not only leave a nasty odor, but cause serious health problems for you and the people in your household.
In carpet, organic load such as invisible dust and cellulose are food sources. After water damage to a building, mold grows in walls and then becomes dormant until subsequent high humidity; suitable conditions reactivate mold. Mycotoxin levels are higher in buildings which have had a water incident.
[81] [82] While not specified in the coroner's report or outputs from official proceedings, the death was widely reported as due to specifically 'toxic' or 'toxic black' mold. [83] The finding led to a 2023 change in UK law, known as Awaab's Law, which will require social housing providers to remedy reported damp and mould within certain time ...
The average life cycle for a house dust mite is 65–100 days. [9] A mated female house dust mite can live up to 70 days, laying 60 to 100 eggs in the last five weeks of her life. In a 10-week life span, a house dust mite will produce approximately 2,000 fecal particles and an even larger number of partially digested enzyme-covered dust ...
A large dust storm, or haboob, sweeps across downtown Phoenix Saturday afternoon, July 21, 2012. Dust storms are common across Arizona during the summer, and walls of dust more than a mile high ...
Here are scores for Wichita County restaurant inspections May 21-24.
Soot is the primary cause of "ghosting", the discoloration of walls and ceilings or walls and flooring where they meet. It is generally responsible for the discoloration of the walls above baseboard electric heating units. The formation and properties of soot depend strongly on the fuel composition, but may also be influenced by flame temperature.
Dust storm in Sahara, painted by George Francis Lyon. A sandstorm can transport and carry large volumes of sand unexpectedly. Dust storms can carry large amounts of dust, with the leading edge being composed of a wall of thick dust as much as 1.6 km (5,200 ft) high.