When the rover zapped the powder with its laser, it turned out to be gypsum, a mineral that tends to form in bodies of water.
When he invites you to share his lunch with him, he beckons one of his assistants to mix an extra packet of chocolate protein powder with warm water in a Dixie cup.
Alternatively, he'll use a curry oil that he has made by combining a few tablespoons of curry powder with a small bottle of safflower oil and letting the mixture sit for a few weeks.
At a frenetic factory outside the village of Ringaskiddy, Ireland, workers have spent the past year laboring in 12-hour shifts around the clock, seven days a week, turning out 10 tonnes of a plain-looking white powder with extraordinary qualities.
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Less than fondly, he recalls a late-1980s visit to a French pigment factory where the air was thick with powder laced (he suspects) with toxic heavy metals.
Inside the plastic case is a non-toxic aluminum powder, mixed in with some plastic beads to keep the powder flow smooth and consistent.
Moritz landscape by Plinio Colombi, with powder snow settled on trees and paths leading into distant mountains.
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.
The upper duplex consists of a sunny living room with wood-burning fireplace and sweeping staircase, powder room, dining room with another wood-burning fireplace and a renovated kitchen with laundry.
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.
So she began experimenting with talc powder, oils from Africa, and a few products that tended to compliment older skin.
She also melted chocolate with porcini powder and streamed ribbons of the mixture into cold water to form thin branches.
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Fonterra says it was told by Sanlu of a problem with the powder on August 2nd, six days before the games.
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About 70m down on the left side, there is water pipe that has been adopted as a shiva linga (a phallic symbol that represents the god Shiva, ubiquitous throughout Hindu South Asia) and is covered with red powder.
" 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.
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).
Red chutney scorches the mouth with garlic and chili powder (and maybe a touch of tamarind), while the green stuff tingles the lips with green chilis, cilantro and mint.
Dishes include short paccheri pasta with chickpeas, red shrimp and cardamom powder, alongside signature dishes like grilled, marinated partridge with cabbage, celeriac and herbs.
With demand for Powder River coal growing fast, more tracks are needed.
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Because ticking in the background is that time bomb, packed with the dry powder of purchasing power at PE shops and public companies themselves.
We would begin praying and sprinkling these rather ordinary implements with yellow turmeric powder, red roli powder, grains of rice, holy water, and flower petals.
The frame is no longer assembled from laser-etched wood, instead there's a powder-coated steel frame with PVC plastic sides to help shield the various moving parts and lend an air of professionalism to the affair.
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It starts with a baking-powder-leavened batter and ends in uncommonly airy waffles a sort of hybrid of the cake and yeast-raised categories.
These are wrapped in carbon nanotubes - tiny "straws" of pure carbon that are renowned for their electrical properties - and coated with a platinum black powder.
The special treatment begins with a warm exfoliating cream made with cherry blossom rice powder, followed by an exfoliating massage, foot massage and full-body massage using melted Shea butter.
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The police protested: since the revellers thronging the streets would be dousing anyone they came across with water and talcum powder, surely the police had a right to defend themselves in kind?
Here is the recipe he and his team discovered: organic material, like grass clippings or agricultural waste, is mixed with a stabilizing peptide powder and from that protein is extracted from the materials, stabilized.
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