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* ''Literature/Area51'': The Airlia have some kind of sand-like substance that can dissolve a body in seconds, leaving only their clothes behind. It's used for destroying those whose corpses are potentially revealing.

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* ''Literature/Area51'': The Airlia have some kind of sand-like substance that can {{nanomachines}} able to dissolve a body in seconds, leaving only their clothes behind. It's used for destroying those whose corpses are potentially revealing.
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* ''Literature/Area51'': The Airlia have some kind of sand-like substance that can dissolve a body in seconds, leaving only their clothes behind. It's used for destroying those whose corpses are potentially revealing.
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* ''Literature/{{Inkmistress}}'': Ina kills Raisa through aging her until her very bones crumble to nothing.
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** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E24LongLiveWalterJameson Long Live Walter Jameson]]", a charismatic and deeply knowledgeable history professor proposes to marry one of his students, but her father (a colleague on the faculty) objects to the match. It turns out that the professor [[spoiler:lectures from experience, as he's been alive for centuries. One of his past wives shoots him fatally, and he ages rapidly as he dies, leaving his clothing full of dust]].
** A columnist loses his youth, then his life to an ageless beauty queen with a magical scarab beetle in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E143QueenOfTheNile Queen of the Nile]]".

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** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E24LongLiveWalterJameson "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E24LongLiveWalterJameson Long Live Walter Jameson]]", a charismatic and deeply knowledgeable history professor proposes to marry one of his students, but her father (a colleague on the faculty) objects to the match. It turns out that the professor [[spoiler:lectures from experience, as he's been alive for centuries. One of his past wives shoots him fatally, and he ages rapidly as he dies, leaving his clothing full of dust]].
** A columnist loses his youth, then his life to an ageless beauty queen with a magical scarab beetle in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E143QueenOfTheNile "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E23QueenOfTheNile Queen of the Nile]]".
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* Happens to an unfortunate woman in a [[https://vimeo.com/250320374 2007 Yahoo! Answers commercial]] when her husband's dodgy new laser level ends up being an actual laser beam. She survives in the scenario where he buys a proper laser level recommended by Yahoo! Answers instead. An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7_5O0oLvcQ alternate cut]] simply has her BlownAcrossTheRoom instead.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'': Keyleth's spell chars his body to a partially skeletal husk which quickly turns to dust in Grog's arms.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'': Keyleth's sunbeam spell chars his [[spoiler:Sylas Briarwood]] body to a partially skeletal husk which quickly turns to dust in Grog's arms.
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* ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror'': The Ancient One Quachil Uttaus has a "Dust Deck" that players must draw from under certain circumstances. If they draw the wrong card, Quachil Uttaus reaches out and touches them, and they are immediately aged until all that's left is a pile of dust.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': [[TheHeavy Cinder's]] Semblance allows her to convert particles (such as sand or dust) to glass. With the Maiden powers, she has the ability to do the opposite. When she chooses, she can touch something and incinerate it to dust as she demonstrates during the Volume 3 finale. [[spoiler:During the Battle of Beacon in the Volume 3 climax, Pyrrha attempts to protect Beacon Tower by fighting Cinder, even though she knows Cinder has obtained the Fall Maiden's full power. Cinder kills her by firing a burning arrow into Pyrrha's chest. The arrow dissipates into tiny glowing embers. As Pyrrha takes her last breath, Cinder gently touches her head and Pyrrha's body dissolves into ash embers that billow gently away on the breeze. The only thing left behind is Pyrrha's circlet.]]

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** The Creature of Grimm dissintegrate into smoke-like substance that quickly evaporates when they're killed. They also appear to be completely hollow inside beyond a red glow.
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[[TheHeavy Cinder's]] Semblance allows her to convert particles (such as sand or dust) to glass. With the Maiden powers, she has the ability to do the opposite. When she chooses, she can touch something and incinerate it to dust as she demonstrates during the Volume 3 finale. [[spoiler:During the Battle of Beacon in the Volume 3 climax, Pyrrha attempts to protect Beacon Tower by fighting Cinder, even though she knows Cinder has obtained the Fall Maiden's full power. Cinder kills her by firing a burning arrow into Pyrrha's chest. The arrow dissipates into tiny glowing embers. As Pyrrha takes her last breath, Cinder gently touches her head and Pyrrha's body dissolves into ash embers that billow gently away on the breeze. The only thing left behind is Pyrrha's circlet.]]
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* ''Literature/DaggersOfDarkness'': Victims cursed by the titular dagger will eventually dissolve into dust, with an unfortunate curse-bearer turning into black soot on the ''first'' page (complete with illustration). The hero is cursed by one such dagger by his enemy, the EvilChancellor Chinghiz, and must find a way to reverse it. [[spoiler:The last chapter sees Chinghiz confronting the hero only to be stabbed InTheBack by his equally-traitorous daughter, Meghana-Durr; the hero then managed to make his curse bounce to Meghana instead turning ''her'' into dust]].
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* ''Film/LifeForce'': If a zombie can't quickly drain more LifeEnergy after waking up, it explodes into dust.

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* ''Film/LifeForce'': ''Film/Lifeforce1985'': If a zombie can't quickly drain more LifeEnergy after waking up, it explodes into dust.

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