powdery

I would say the more powdery snow looked like wet oatmeal when it hit the floor.

Seems to me that DE is probably too powdery for this.

Low humidity is also why we get the really powdery snow that is great for skiing.

Is generally a brittle, almost powdery material, that is of no use to anyone. I'd say they range in texture from something like .

If anyone's wondering why: Klein's blue has a somewhat powdery surface that disperses the color in all directions. As a result it's more intense than it would be if the surface were smooth.

You might be right but the solution is to educate people, not to feed them a powdery substance of dubious nutritional value.

Cook a piece of chalk and it'll crumble into powdery lime; mix it with water and air and it'll heat up and set back into hard stone. The bigger idea here is that, while it's highly improbable that heat is applied to chalk, we can choose to apply heat to chalk.

I'd also like to get a fat bike for fresh/powdery snow, but it's rare that's a big deal. There's of course some trade-off between how much traction/stability your tires give you and how much friction & inertia you have to work against when pedaling.

Higher pressure won over underinflated in pedaling uphill, unless it was powdery dirt where a wider tire didn't bog down as much.

The linked article makes this clear: > In case you need a refresher, cement is a powdery lime-and-clay substance that is combined with water and gravel or sand to make concrete.

While we do get snow every winter, it tends to be mixed with icy rain, not the powdery stuff you get in more northern climates. What tends to happen is a bit of snow will fall overnight, then go into a melt/flash-freeze cycle as the temperature hovers around freezing.

>The recipe incorporates large amounts of fly ash -- a fluffy, powdery residue of burned coal at electric plants, that can otherwise wind up as a troublesome pollutant.

By analogy, if you're an intermediate skiier and you visit a well-groomed mountain with great, powdery snow you could say "this mountain is easy to ski on". But if you're just learning to ski, and you follow everyone else up the lift to the top of a blue run, it's a terrifying experience trying to get down the slope without breaking your neck.

Not just phylloxera but the various fungi species that create powdery and downy mildew, among other illnesses for which Vitis vinifera has no natural resistance. And therefore Europeans must now spray fungicides at a level they never had to before.

The problem is that its designers had - and still have - no idea how firm or soft the surface is, so the anchoring system had to be designed to work on just about anything ranging from rock to rubble to ice to powdery snow.

> While we do get snow every winter, it tends to be mixed with icy rain, not the powdery stuff you get in more northern climates A good point, I've noticed that too - despite how close we are, the snow in Norway always seems different, more powdery and less slushy.

If you've ever broken a fluorescent bulb, you'll notice a powdery coating on the inside of the glass, which is the phosphor coating that actually absorbs the violet/ultra-violet light of the excited mercury vapor and then re-emits it as visible light.