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On this one day in March, these women take the traditional colored powder of the festival and color each other.
With every handful of the powder they throw into the air, their white saris slowly start to suffuse with color.
The long-lasting damage of nuclear radiation caused an entire city and its population to turn into powder.
It turns into powder.
GH: Where is the powder?
And I didn't just see myself carving down a mountain of powder, I could actually feel it.
And the poem goes: "On the idle hill of summer, lazy with the flow of streams, hark I hear a distant drummer, drumming like a sound in dreams, far and near and low and louder on the roads of earth go by, dear to friend and food to powder, soldiers marching, soon to die."
And this material that's deposited either starts as a liquid form or a material powder form.
And I've got here a little 100 micrograms of white powder, which I try not to let the security people see at airports.
They buy it, they dry it and they bring it to this factory, which was purchased in part by, again, patient capital from Novartis, who has a real interest in getting the powder so that they can make Coartem.
Now, the Moon has no atmosphere, so micrometeorites come in continuously, and the whole surface of the Moon is covered with powder now, because for four billion years it's been bombarded by micrometeorites, and when micrometeorites come in at about 20 to 60,000 miles an hour, they vaporize on contact.
So of course, this is a very crude machine, but we're working on a micro-scale version of these, and hopefully the cubes will be like a powder that you pour in.
They took the eggs and the milk out of the powder.
For example, the grinding of materials, or the dumping of dried powder materials.
For example, coconut shells crushed in a machine mixed with rice straw, powder of rice husk mixed with organic manure is finally dumped in soil on which our forest is planted.
The first cocaine prohibition laws, similarly prompted by racist fears of black men sniffing that white powder and forgetting their proper place in Southern society.
And the bee has been cleverly fooled into taking the nectar, and also picking up some powder on its leg, and going off to the next blossom.
And they gave me, like, a little plastic Ziploc bag of a small amount of powder.
MR: Chris, the astonishing thing is that this absolutely worthless piece of powder that had the sparkle of a promise of hope for Jenesis is not only keeping Jenesis and other people alive today, but produces almost a billion and a half dollars a year in revenue.
Bugs can be eaten whole to make up a meal or ground into flour, powder, and paste to add to food.
This left a powder that could be mixed into a drinkable solution or recombined with the cocoa butter to create the solid chocolate we know today.
After hundreds of years of variations to the preparation method, the standard became to heat tea, pack it into portable cakes, grind it into powder, mix with hot water, and create a beverage called muo cha, or matcha.
To make their paint, artists would grind a block of lead into powder, exposing highly toxic dust particles.
What about using glass powder to replace part of the cement?
This brown powder could be mixed into drinks, made into salves or eaten straight up.
1919, we had gun powder; 1950, we had nuclear power.
Grace goes to make the coffee and finds by the coffee a pot containing a white powder, which is sugar.
But the powder is labeled "Deadly Poison," so Grace thinks that the powder is a deadly poison.
How many people think it was morally permissible for Grace to put the powder in the coffee?
The powder is still sugar, but what's different is what Grace thinks.
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