POWDER

Powder

A powder is a dry, bulk solid composed of a large number of very fine particles that may flow freely when shaken or tilted. Powders are a special sub-class of granular materials, although the terms powder and granular are sometimes used to distinguish separate classes of material. In particular, powders refer to those granular materials that have the finer grain sizes, and that therefore have a greater tendency to form clumps when flowing. Granulars refers to the coarser granular materials that do not tend to form clumps except when wet.

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powder

Noun

  1. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
  2. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
  3. Light, dry, fluffy snow.

Verb

  1. To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
  2. To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder.
    to powder the hair
  3. To be reduced to powder; to become like powder.
    Some salts powder easily.
  4. To use powder on the hair or skin.
    She paints and powders.
  5. To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.


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