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Why Do Ceiling Fans Get Dusty?

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Why Do Ceiling Fans Get Dusty?

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You’d think, says reader Loren Larson, that the constantly turning blades would throw off any incidental dust that accumulates on a ceiling fan, particularly the blades of ceiling fans. But you’d be wrong. Ceiling fans seem to be dust magnets. Your house or apartment, we say without insult, is full of dust. In the hair-raising first chapter of the marvelous The Secret House, David Bodanis notes that tens of thousands of human skin flakes fall off our body every minute. “Luckily” for us, there are millions of microscopic mites in our abodes, insects that dine on the skin that we shed. Bodanis estimates that just within the average double bed mattress, two million dust mites live on our discarded skin and hair. Each mite defecates perhaps twenty times a day; their fecal pellets are so small that they float in the air, circulating around the house. Despite the millions of insects who depend upon our shedding skin for their survival, human skin and hair is by far the largest component in t

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