Comment by pfdietz
15 days ago
Estimates for sputtering of dust grains are much faster than this.
Granted, there is also growth of dust grains. But surfaces from which atoms can be ejected by UV photons will erode.
Some notes: https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~draine/dust/Draine_IPMU_Lec...
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