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Penguin Herder
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.Lopke_Quasath said: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.
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