Word Finder - powdered

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To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.

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To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.

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to powder one's hair

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To use powder on the hair or skin.

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To turn into powder; to become powdery.

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To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.

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Which has been made into a powder

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powdered milk

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Which has been covered with powder (typically referring to makeup)

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powdered ladies

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Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned.

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Powdered beef, pickled meats — Harvey.

I can only assume the powder you found in my pocket was powdered sugar.

One day we were out, so I put some powdered sugar in a bag.

The finely powdered and washed mineral is too crystalline and consequently of insufficient opacity to be used alone as a paint, and is therefore mixed with "white lead," of which material it is also used as an adulterant.

It is insoluble in all acids, except in hot concentrated sulphuric, when finely powdered.

The charge of the retorts consists of a mixture of 1100 lb of roasted calamine and 550 lb of dry powdered coal per furnace.

A better method is Wohler's, in which the finely powdered mineral is fused with twice its weight of potassium carbonate in a platinum crucible, the melt powdered and treated in a platinum basin with aqueous hydrofluoric acid.

The powdered metal burns at a red heat to form the trioxide; it is very slowly attacked by moist air.

It is soluble in a mixture of nitric and hydrofluoric acids, and the powdered metal, in aqua regia, but slowly attacked by sulphuric, hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acids separately; it is also soluble in boiling potash solution, giving a tunstate and hydrogen.

As this oxide is a dangerous explosive, great care must be taken in its preparation; the chlorate is finely powdered and added in the cold, in small quantities at a time, to the acid contained in a retort.

Several green-coloured beetles are, on account of their colour, used as adulterants to cantharides, but they are very easily detected by examination with the eye, or, if powdered, with the microscope.

C. Chaptal, consists in neutralizing excessive acid by means of powdered marble, and bringing up the sugar to normal proportions by adding appropriate amounts of this substance in a solid form.

The decomposition is rendered more easy and regular by mixing the salt with powdered manganese dioxide.

An alloy was formed of two parts silver, one-third copper and one-sixth lead; to this mixture, while fluid in the crucible, powdered sulphur in excess was added; and the brittle amalgam, when cold, was finely pounded, and sealed up in large quills for future use.

The powdered amalgam was then shaken out of the quills on to the plate, so as to completely cover all the engraved pattern.

It may be obtained by extracting powdered gall-nuts with a mixture of ether and alcohol, whereupon the tannin is taken up in the lower layer, which on separation and evaporation yields the acid.

It may be considerably diminished by a return to a more natural system of feeding, as by using brown bread instead of white, by taking oatmeal porridge, and by eating raw or cooked fruits, such as apples, oranges, prunes and figs, or preserves made of fruit, such as raspberry and strawberry jam, marmalade, &c., by vegetables or by dried and powdered seaweed.

These salts crystallize out when the water is partially evaporated and may be used with hot water at home, the best imitation of the Carlsbad water being obtained by mixing with hot water the powdered Carlsbad salts (pulverformig), which contain all the constituents of the natural water.

The black variety of cochineal is sometimes sold for silver cochineal by shaking it with powdered talc or heavy-spar; but these adulterations can be readily detected by means of a lens.

It decomposes steam at a red heat, and burns (especially when finely powdered) in chlorine.

Druggists' opium includes the kinds purchased for use in medicine, which for Great Britain should, when dried and powdered, contain 92-101% of morphine.

This method is to exhaust the powdered bark with water acidulated with hydrochloric acid and then to precipitate the alkaloids by caustic soda.

Another method consists in mixing the powdered bark with milk of lime, drying the mass slowly with frequent stirring, exhausting the powder with boiling alcohol, removing the excess of alcohol by distillation, adding sufficient dilute sulphuric acid to dissolve the alkaloid and throw down colouring matter and traces of lime, &c., filtering, and allowing the neutralized liquid to deposit crystals.

The first is prepared by heating red phosphorus with finely powdered sulphur in a tube sealed at one end and filled with carbon dioxide.

Frequently the leaves powdered together with equal quantities of the powdered leaves of the Cannabis Indica and lobelia mixed with potassium nitrate are burned in an open dish.

Powdered flint was formerly used in the manufacture of glass, and is still one of the ingredients of many of the finer varieties of pottery.

For further purification, it may be sublimed, after having been previously mixed with a little powdered charcoal, or it may be mixed with a small quantity of iodine and heated.

The tri-iodide, AsI3 prepared by subliming arsenic and iodine together in a retort, by leading arsine into an alcoholic iodine solution, or by boiling powdered arsenic and iodine with water, filtering and evaporating, forms brick-red hexagonal tables, of specific gravity 4.39, soluble in alcohol, ether and benzene, and in a large excess of water; in the presence of a small quantity of water, it is decomposed with formation of hydriodic acid and an insoluble basic salt of the composition 4AsOI.

The pharmacological action of hydrogen peroxide (H202), potassium permanganate, powdered charcoal and some other oxidizing agents depends on the readiness with which they give up oxygen.

When finely powdered and rubbed down with water they form emulsions, the undissolved resin being suspended in the gum solution.

It is smoked with or without tobacco; or it is made into a sweetmeat with honey, sugar and aromatic spices; or it is powdered and infused in cold water, yielding a turbid drink, subdschi.

From the 17th century, quinine from the powdered bark of a South American tree was used to treat malaria in Europe.

For this particular contract the EB24 windows and doors were polyester powdered coated black, and the fittings were finished in dark bronze.

These can be easily raised in newly hatched brine shrimp, powdered flake, and small daphnia and other pond foods.

Carbon Black carbon Black Carbon black is a powdered form of elemental carbon.

A bit of powdered carmine mixed with a drop of Paramecium culture on a slide always produces interesting results.

Now, among traditional medicines, there is a mix of the good, the bad, and the powdered chalk.

Alternatively you can use powdered cinnamon, but it is better to grind fresh bark if you can, sticks if not.

The machine has a 3kg bean hopper plus four further canisters for powdered milk, chocolate, sugar and decaffeinated coffee.

Firstly, certain airbrush cosmetics can actually give a matte, powdered look without the need to use powder to set the make-up.

You know you have finished compost when it is dark in color, crumbly but not powdered and smells earthy.

Until the claimant became sensitized to latex protein, the substance hazardous to her health was contained in the powdered latex gloves.

When dry, we dust the batt with dry powdered kaolin (china clay ), which acts as a second protective layer.

Hence I now use hardly any, and that which I do use is made up from powdered milk.

I made one batch with powdered pectin, which didn't set properly, will try 2 packages next time.

Disodium phosphate is added to powdered milk to prevent gelation.

And today Brazilian and Jamaican dairy producers are being put out of business by imports of powdered milk from the European Union.

To restore the writing surface, the abraded area is brushed with powdered sandarac, a resin from a North African conifer.

Even the cement was produced using powdered ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS ).

We look strange in the radio room all powdered down with corn starch.

Add ½ tsp vanilla extract and a little powdered sweetener, according to taste.