khamsin
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But for the moment no khamsin was blowing, no dreadful sandstorm to grind up men and machines.
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Additional tests have shown that their conditions are aggravated, not directly caused by the khamsin.
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Moving up out of the desert each spring and fall, the khamsin is an ill wind that blows no one in the Middle East any good.
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The hot, dry atmosphere produced by the khamsin contains an excess of positive ions.
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The heat was increasing and the desert winds brought the "khamsin" or duststorms.
From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Herbert Brayley Collett
