0 a loose, dry substance that consists of extremely small pieces, usually made by breaking something up and crushing it -- 粉，粉末
face powder 擦臉香粉
UK Why are there so many adverts for washing powders on TV? 為甚麼電視裡有這麼多洗衣粉的廣告？
You'll get more flavour from the spices if you grind them into a powder. 你把香料磨成粉的話味道會更香濃。
A packet of white powder was found and police scientists are analysing it. 發現了一包白色粉末，刑偵專家正在對其進行分析。
talcum powder 滑石粉
1 to put powder on someone's skin -- 往…上擦粉
The fertilizer was applied as a powder and mixed well with the sample to achieve a homogeneous nutrient distribution.
All of the tainted powdered skim milk was used exclusively as a manufacturing ingredient.
There is also a section giving web-links for users to download software for powder diffraction studies.
Bioprotectants such as glycerol and trehalose as well as organic solvents have been used in experiments with lyophilized protein powders.
Effect of non-host plant extracts on diamondback moth and its parasitoid solution contained the extract from 100 g dry leaf powder.
In recent years there has been a huge development in geochemical analysis, much of which involves rock powders.
Large and fresh samples were split, jaw-crushed and reduced to powder in a tungsten carbide shatterbox.
Mixing the spores with powder of clay, rock or meteorites increased the survival rate by five orders of magnitude.
