Impressive were the elements presented by Kaloust Paragamian for the gathering African dust in Heraklion. As he calculated from measurements in the outside of his workshop, the amount of dust that covered the city reached 21 kg per acre. The image of dust magnification also impresses, capturing the size of air pollution, according to Neakriti.

In the estimation that about 21kg of dust per acre were deposited in the Heraklion region, the Director of the Institute of Speleological Research of Greece, Mr. Kaloust Paragamian, proceeded, on the occasion of the spectacular concentration of African dust that took place on Sunday (26/5).

The finding came after an attempt to clean the outside of the workshop, just hours after the peak of the phenomenon. According to the data he presented himself, cleaning a 12 -square -foot surface, a amount of dust reached 250 grams was collected.

The image of dust in the stereoscope is also noteworthy, where its micrograms are enlarged, demonstrating the size of the atmospheric burden.

Posting Kalust Paragamian:

“Wiping the tiles outside the laboratory, on an area of ​​12 sq.m. We gathered dust that weighed 250 grams! This means that yesterday in Heraklion there were more or less 21kg of dust per acre!
In the light the dust enlarged by 45 times in stereoscope“