Armstrong began to describe what he saw: "The surface appears to be very, very fine grain,like a powder.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

It is often mixed with cream of tartar, a fine powder commonly used in cooking.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

Their beans are used to make cocoa powder, cocoa butter and of course chocolate.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

a small amount of fertilizer and dolomite, a powder-like substance made from limestone.

VOA: special.2011.06.14

A bottle full of sleeping powder was on a table near his bed.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Then the powder is formed into pellets and shaped into pots.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

The flowerpots are made by reducing chicken feathers to a powder.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

The Americans did not have the smokeless powder.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

They contain flour,eggs, milk and baking powder.

VOA: special.2011.02.20

They say Mutallab suffered severe burns when he tried to use a liquid to ignite powder strapped to his legs and blow up the aircraft.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

"But if you look at it carefully, you find that granite contains quartz, and quartz when its ground to a fine powder and inhaled, can cause silicosis."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

But it is not easy to get at. Specks of gold embedded in the mountain rock can only be extracted by blasting and crushing the rock to powder.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

Community leaders say donating basic goods like milk powder and aspirin, which can be scarce in Cuba, has a major impact for Cuban families struggling to survive under Communist rule.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

A blogger for the Huffington Post, Sedaei claims that writing served as a sort of white powder for him, which he could then throw over the invisible man and discover his shape.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15