Seconds after it consumes a spill, the powder balls up and floats away for easy recovery.
The challenge of transforming the powder into an aerosol cloud was handed to rocket scientist Carlos Schuler.
Portillo is set at 2, 880m above sea level and receives some 6m of dry powder every winter.
The inland sky above Boonville is powder-blue as I enter the Mendocino Fairgrounds for the annual Floyd R.
Soon the trees disappeared, the gradient increased and the soil became black and powder-fine.
Any time a suspicious powder is located in a mail facility it is tested.
For many farmers, the goodness of manure could not be reduced to a white powder.
It produced a fine powder that engineers deemed suitable to try to pick up.
Reid also had a safety fuse containing black powder, a U.S. government official said.
Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Jonathan Jacobs said the envelope contained some type of powder.
It said gunpowder or powder from fireworks can be used as a substitute for match heads.
We have been feeding our baby on Chinese-produced milk powder for the past 12 months.
Mr Bush has pledged not to raise taxes, Mr Gore has kept his powder dry.
When uranium comes out of the ground it is milled into a powder called yellowcake.
Skiers, flushed and sweaty in fluorescent powder suits, swooshed by, shouting in German and French.
Jim reappeared, but every minute or two another cascade of powder washed over us.
The solid nanoparticles can be placed in air filtration units or sprayed as a powder.
Sophia was jumping with excitement as the shade opened, revealing about a foot of new powder.
In past centuries, China was very innovative and developments included gun powder and the compass.
In a domestic-science class, three boys are making a presentation for a new washing-powder advertisement.
India, the largest milk producer, banned milk powder exports to rein in rising prices.
Instead, American Superconductors and its rivals powder the stuff and pack it into silver tubes.
V.s hyperkinetically whizzed past us and the trucks kicked up plumes of swirling yellow powder.
But for the moment, at least, none of this deters the wildcatters along Wyoming's Powder River.
At first blush Powder Mountain seems an unlikely place to launch the next wave of innovation.
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Now the explanation is clear: Microsoft was keeping its powder dry for a bigger battle.
Adelson has plenty of power and powder left. 2012 was likely just a warm up.
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Add the garlic, curry powder, lemon zest. and lemon juice and stir for 1 minute.
"There is sufficient milk powder available (in the Netherlands), but not always the required brand, " she added.
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