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Dubya:
Maid. No. Wait. That's a person who dusts studies. Never mind.
But a person who studies winds is probably a meteorologist. As opposed to a skinnierologist.
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coniologist: one who studies dust
anemologist: one who studies wind
palynologist: one who studies pollen and spores, esp. fossil
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I don't know what you call it, but I calls it a Flockhart.
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An 'ologist' reference? No. Palynology is an existing word, a branch of palaeobotany; the others are just coined in the Greek words (konis 'dust' had me racking my brains for a few minutes then came to me).
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I emailed USGS Center for Coastal Geology scientist Gene Shinn, and received this response: "People usually talk about aerosols, which would cover dust but true aerosols can change from being liquid, like salt dissolved in water or rain but then turns to salt crystals when the water evaporates. So we came up with a word "aeropolvology"; polvo is spanish for dust so we assume it is probably also latin. You know this cold stick and you can say you had a part in it!! Have fun and check the 4 page info sheet on dust in the website below. Genehttp://coastal.er.usgs.gov/african_dust/(so i guess my pulvology guess wasn't so far off after all ) thanks A!!
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