In article ,
Adrian writes:

I can only imagine the consequences of a spilt container of metallic
powder, in zero g, in an environment full of somewhat important
electronics...

I remember thinking something similar when one of the astronauts
demonstrated emptying a beaker of water out in mid-air in zero gravity,
pinging the droplets about and letting them combine (might have been
on Spacelab).

At the end, he threw a towel over them, but I expect some smaller
ones probably got away.

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Andrew Gabriel
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