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The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins. From Dust to Life tells the remarkable story of how the celestial objects that make up the solar system arose from common beginnings billions of years ago, and how scientists and philosophers have sought to unravel this mystery down through the centuries, piecing together the clues that enabled them to deduce the solar system's layout, its age, and the most likely way it formed.Drawing on the history of astronomy and the latest findings in astrophysics and the planetary sciences, John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton offer the most up-to-date and authoritative treatment of the subject available. They examine how the evolving universe set the stage for the appearance of our Sun, and how the nebulous cloud of gas and dust that accompanied the young Sun eventually became the planets, comets, moons, and asteroids that exist today. They explore how each of the planets acquired its unique characteristics, why some are rocky and others gaseous, and why one planet in particular--our Earth--provided an almost perfect haven for the emergence of life.From Dust to Life is a must-read for anyone who desires to know more about how the solar system came to be. This enticing book takes readers to the very frontiers of modern research, engaging with the latest controversies and debates. It reveals how ongoing discoveries of far-distant extrasolar planets and planetary systems are transforming our understanding of our own solar system's astonishing history and its possible fate.

Solar system -- Origin. --- Interplanetary dust. --- Life -- Origin.

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This volume presents state-of-the-art research about mineral dust, including results from field campaigns, satellite observations, laboratory studies, computer modelling and theoretical studies. Dust research is a new, dynamic and fast-growing area of science and due to its multiple roles in the Earth system, dust has become a fascinating topic for many scientific disciplines. Aspects of dust research covered in this book reach from timescales of minutes (as with dust devils, cloud processes, and radiation) to millennia (as with loess formation and oceanic sediments), making dust both a player and recorder of environmental change. The book is structured in four main parts that explore characteristics of dust, the global dust cycle, impacts of dust on the Earth system, and dust as a climate indicator. The chapters in these parts provide a comprehensive, detailed overview of this highly interdisciplinary subject. The contributions presented here cover dust from source to sink and describe all the processes dust particles undergo while travelling through the atmosphere. Chapters explore how dust is lifted and transported, how it affects radiation, clouds, regional circulations, precipitation and chemical processes in the atmosphere, and how it deteriorates air quality. The book explores how dust is removed from the atmosphere by gravitational settling, turbulence or precipitation, how iron contained in dust fertilizes terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and abou t the role that dust plays in human health. We learn how dust is observed, simulated using computer models and forecast. The book also details the role of dust deposits for climate reconstructions. Scientific observations and results are presented, along with numerous illustrations. This work has an interdisciplinary appeal and will engage scholars in geology, geography, chemistry, meteorology and physics, amongst others with an interest in the Earth system and environmental change.

Dust. --- Atmospheric dust --- Dust particles --- Dusts --- Air --- Particles --- Pollution --- Physical geography. --- Geology. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Earth System Sciences. --- Physical Geography. --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Geography --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Atmospheric sciences --- Atmosphere

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Wearable video devices --- Dust --- Mineral industries --- Mine inspection --- Measurement --- Data processing. --- Health aspects

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Exposure Science: Basic Principles and Applications provides a concise overview of the field of exposure science, from its origins in sanitation and occupational health, to its exciting involvement with emerging scientific concepts. Written by world-leading experts in the field of exposure science, this book provides all the basic understanding you need to employ the best tools and methods for measurement, analysis, and modeling of exposure. Exposure Science: Basic Principles and Applications is an invaluable introduction to exposure science for anyone working in the fields of environmental health, risk assessment, toxicology, or epidemiology. Focuses on and highlights the basic fundamentals, scientific goals, theories and tools of exposure science. Examines the use of the exposome and eco-exposome concepts within the field of exposure science. --

Environmental health. --- Health risk assessment. --- Pollution -- Environmental aspects. --- Industrial toxicology --- Environmental toxicology --- Public Health --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental Health --- Toxicology & Public Health --- Environmental Engineering --- Dust --- Measurement. --- Dust counting

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"Provides information that is essential to the prevention and control of particulate and gaseous contamination within datacom facilities and gives a common set of guidelines for contamination prevention and control that can enhance datacom equipment reliability"--

Clean rooms --- Data processing service centers --- Electronic data processing --- Air filters --- Dust control --- Contamination (Technology) --- Decontamination (from gases, chemicals, etc.) --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- ADP (Data processing) --- Automatic data processing --- Data processing --- EDP (Data processing) --- IDP (Data processing) --- Integrated data processing --- Computers --- Office practice --- Computer centers --- Computer service centers --- Data processing centers --- Data service centers --- Electronic data processing service centers --- Information technology service centers --- IT support service centers --- Tech support service centers --- Technical support service centers --- Computer service industry --- Electronic data processing departments --- Clean work stations --- Cleanrooms --- Factories --- White rooms --- Rooms --- Chemical warfare --- Civil defense --- Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous --- Impurities (Technology) --- Industrial contamination --- Particulate contamination in industry --- Factory sanitation --- Control of dust --- Dust --- Dust abatement --- Dust management --- Dust palliation --- Dust suppression --- Pollution prevention --- Air --- Filters and filtration --- Water --- Protection --- Equipment and supplies --- Automation --- War use --- Control --- Prevention --- Purification