Cosmic Dust
"Cosmic Dust" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Finely divided solid matter with particle sizes smaller than a micrometeorite, thus with diameters much smaller than a millimeter, moving in interplanetary space. (NASA Thesaurus, 1994)
| Descriptor ID |
D019443
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.633.222.200 G01.060.249.159.200 G16.500.275.240.200
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| Concept/Terms |
Cosmic Dust- Cosmic Dust
- Cosmic Dusts
- Dust, Cosmic
- Dusts, Cosmic
- Interplanetary Dust
- Dust, Interplanetary
- Dusts, Interplanetary
- Interplanetary Dusts
- Interstellar Dust
- Dust, Interstellar
- Dusts, Interstellar
- Interstellar Dusts
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