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Dust is a solid substance in a pulverized state which is made up of particles of solid material smaller than 0.5 mm. It can be said that a substance is inflammable in a solid compact state under normal conditions, but it burns and blows up in the pulverized state, in the form of dust. Almost all substances burn when in the form of dust except dolomite, limestone, oxides, and metal salts [1, 2, 7, 9, 18].
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Makovická Osvaldová, L., Fatriasari, W. (2023). Testing of Dust and Dust Mixtures. In: Testing of Materials for Fire Protection Needs. The Society of Fire Protection Engineers Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39711-0_11
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