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  • 91diamond dust — noun small crystals of ice • Syn: ↑ice crystal, ↑snow mist, ↑poudrin, ↑ice needle, ↑frost snow, ↑frost mist • Hypernyms: ↑crystal • …

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  • 92zinc dust — noun : powdery metallic zinc usually containing zinc oxide in varying amounts that collects as a bluish gray powder during distillation of zinc and that is used chiefly as a reducing agent, as a pigment in corrosion resistant coatings for iron… …

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  • 93diamond-dust — diˈamond dust or diˈamond powder noun The powder made by the friction of diamonds on one another in the course of polishing • • • Main Entry: ↑diamond …

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  • 94gold dust — n [U] 1.) gold in the form of a fine powder 2.) be like gold dust BrE to be very valuable and difficult to find ▪ Cup final tickets are like gold dust …

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  • 95angel dust — noun a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or dust ) for its effects as a hallucinogen • Syn: ↑phencyclidine, ↑phencyclidine hydrochloride, ↑PCP • Hypernyms: ↑hallucinogen,… …

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  • 96Lycopodium powder — Lycopodium Ly co*po di*um, n. [NL., from Gr. ? wolf + ?, ?, a foot.] (Bot.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order {Lycopodiace[ae]}; club moss. [1913 Webster] {Lycopodium powder}, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of… …

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  • 97diamond-powder — diˈamond dust or diˈamond powder noun The powder made by the friction of diamonds on one another in the course of polishing • • • Main Entry: ↑diamond …

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  • 98gold dust — gold ,dust noun uncount gold in the form of a powder like gold dust very valuable or difficult to get because a lot of people want it …

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  • 99gold dust — noun (U) 1 gold in the form of a fine powder 2 be like gold dust to be very valuable and difficult to find: Good secretaries are like gold dust …

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  • 100volcanic dust — noun : fine particles of rock powder that are blown out from a volcano and that may remain suspended in the atmosphere for long periods producing red sunsets and climatic modifications thousands of miles away * * * volcanic dust noun Fine… …

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