Seconds after it consumes a spill, the powder balls up and floats away for easy recovery.
"You'd have little packets that had this powder in it, you'd fill up your pitcher of water, you'd dump in the powder, stir it up, let it sit for a little bit, and then you'd have a permanent magnet that draws all the minerals down towards the bottom of the pot, and then you pour off the relatively clean water, " he said.
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Black Powder Media showed up at our double-wide HQ with a couple Bluetooth Impulse Controllers on hand for us to play with.
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Evidence that the economy has been ground to a fine powder continues to pile up, and today's brought another batch of bad news.
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They say they love the spiciness, the crunch, the illicit nature of the snacks, even the red powder that invariably ends up all over them and their clothes.
And while these works may seem ephemeral - often made from sand and mud rather than canvas and paint, their creators clearly expect them to survive beyond the next exhibition, leaving detailed instructions of how to recreate the work, and often rebuilding it themselves (as Turner nominee Karla Black did last week with her powder and make-up creation on the floor of Tramway).
But any machine that could fill thousands of packets a minute would end up clumping the powder.
When the bees walk through the trap they pick up some of the powder which is then spread around the hive.
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Birds, shaking their wings, threw up sprays of yellow powder.
V.s hyperkinetically whizzed past us and the trucks kicked up plumes of swirling yellow powder.
In 1987, a scrap-scavenger in Brazil unwittingly cut up a canister containing cesium powder which he had stolen from an abandoned clinic: the resulting contamination left several people dead and 28 with radiation burns.
" Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip open our mountain sides, blow out our stumps with giant powder, (and) dam up our water ways.
After adding a last film of powder, she rejoins the group and lines up at the buffet for roast beef and salmon.
It's important, she notes, that these tomes "speak to the four-minute attention span" so guests don't end up staying too long in the powder room.
Normally, visitors to this ski resort seek nothing more dynamic than pumping knee-deep powder snow or perhaps enjoying a knees-up in one of Davos's nightclubs.
It produced a fine powder that engineers deemed suitable to try to pick up.
Adelson has plenty of power and powder left. 2012 was likely just a warm up.
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Having kept some of his powder dry, Dimon, in addition to scooping up those two huge acquisitions, quickly began hiring talent and seeking to grab market share from weaker banks as the crisis ebbed.
The ball may disintegrate into a powder, or break in half, or hit up against its earlier self at just such an angle so as to enter the wormhole in just such a way that even more peculiar events occur.
Previous developers had planned to litter Powder Mountain with a sprawl of malls, golf courses and up to 10, 000 homes.
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Regolith is a fine powder formed by a constant rain of small meteorites that breaks up the rocks at the surface.
On auspicious days, villagers throng here to pray, while vendors sell vermillion powder, sweets, beads and bangles and folk musicians strike up their instruments to accompany bhajans (hymns) sung soulfully by wandering mendicants.
Sliding glass doors lead out to a side deck and then up a set of stairs to a roof lounge with powder-coated aluminum railings and cedar decking.
But if you heat up the alloy until it liquefies--Branagan's powder must be heated to 1, 200 degrees Celsius and applied with a thermal spray gun--it turns into an ashy powder as it cools, a metallic glass with "frustrated" molecules, as Branagan calls them, anxious to form a lattice, but confined by their inability to move.
The powder and hydrogen could be stored in the frame of the vehicle, freeing up space for passengers.
Seeing that the FDA allows baobab powder to be used as an ingredient in blended fruit drinks at a level of up to 10% and up to 15% in fruit cereal bars, this could result in a laxative effect, according to a recent report by ConsumerLab.com.
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In 2006 Powder Mountain was sold to a consortium, Western American Holdings, which planned to carve it up and fill it up.
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In whipping up a soy-milk-and-blueberry shake from Herbalife's ShapeWorks protein powder, Heber was also promoting the controversial dietary supplement company.
After a long day of studying data, including slope angles, solar energy, weather and powder patterns and nearby transportation facilities, Mr. Mathews occasionally goes to bed pondering problems and wakes up with solutions.
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