Dust bunny explained

Dust bunnies (or dustbunnies) are small clumps of dust that form under furniture and in corners that are not cleaned regularly.^{[1] [2]} They are made of hair, lint, flakes of dead skin, spider webs, dust, and sometimes light rubbish and debris and are held together by static electricity and felt-like entanglement.^[3] They can house dust mites or other parasites and can lower the efficiency of dust filters by clogging them.^[4] The movement of a single large particle can start the formation of a dust bunny.^[5]

Dust bunnies are harmful to electronics because they can obstruct air flow through heat sinks, raising temperatures significantly and therefore shortening the life of electronic components.^[6]

An American trademark for "Dustbunny" was registered in 2006 for the "Dustbunny Cleaner", a robotic ball with an electrostatic sleeve that rolls around under furniture to collect dust bunnies and other

Dust bunnies have been used as an analogy for the accretion of cosmic matter in planetoids.^{[7] [8]}

See also

• Dust corner

Notes and References

1. Web site: Scientists figure out how accumulating dust particles become planets. 20 March 2023.
2. Web site: What are Dust Bunnies?. 7 January 2024.
3. Web site: Fella . Answer . Dust Bunny Facts - Physics of Dust Bunnies . Esquire.com . 2009-02-05 . 2017-01-19 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160820110707/http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/q-and-a/a5590/dust-bunnies-0309/ . 2016-08-20 .
4. Dust Control in Finite Air Volumes at Zero Gravity - Mean-Field Like Analysis. T.R.Krishna Mohan, Surajit Sen. 8 April 2004.
5. Dust and fibers as a cause of indoor environment problems. T. Schneider. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health. 2008.
6. http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Tech/2010/0415/Three-easy-ways-to-save-your-computer-from-an-early-retirement Three Easy Ways to Save Your Computer From an Early Retirement
7. Formation of Cosmic Dust Bunnies. Matthews, L.S., Hayes, R.L., Freed, M.S., Hyde, T.W., IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. April 2007.
8. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=comet-dust-bunny Comet Dust Bunny