Spell or cantrip to clean people/items?

[Nifft]

Disintegrate makes fine dust. There is a large difference between dust that clumps and collects, and fine dust.

Fine dust is what floats in the air, all around us, 24/7.

Irrelevant. There used to be the object and the dirt on the object (let's call this X volume of dirty). Now there's still volume X of dirty, but also the dust produced by the object ("o" dirty). X+o > X, and we have a net increase in the world's dirt levels.

More seriously, you know that disintegrate only affects contiguous objects, right? So anything that could be cleaned off an object won't be disintegrated with the object. If you disintegrate a sea monster that's barnacled, coated with rotting kelp, and generally crusted with grodyness, you'll end up with a pile of barnacles, rotting kelp, and generally crusty grodyness.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Will]

Yeah, but it beats the heck out of the mess of a rotting corpse.

 

[Nifft]

Yeah, but it beats the heck out of the mess of a rotting corpse.

You are obviously not very hungry.

Breakfast time, -- N