Sentence examples for were powdery from inspiring English sources

The first high-temperature superconductors, known as BSCCO (barium strontium calcium copper oxide) materials, were powdery and brittle.

Solid-state polycondensation of natural aldopentoses and 6-deoxyaldohexoses was found to take place in the presence of H3PO4 (5 mol%) at 100 110 °C under a N2 flow, giving highly branched polysaccharide (Conv. 47 81%, Mw=2700 12 000, Mn=1400 2900); the reaction mixtures were powdery throughout the polymerization.

The problem with late crops is powdery mildew.

Another of the six had so much blue mold that it was powdery and unpleasantly sharp.

Sure, its sea strikes a luscious shade of blue and its sand is powdery white.

The rust pustules are powdery and orange-yellow on the underleaf surface.

The ash is powdery and light, except for varieties that have a high content of inorganic matter.

The sand here is powdery, so if you've brought buckets, wend your way across the maze of saltings and shallow lagoons towards the sea.

Tin exists in two different forms, or allotropes: the familiar form, white (or beta) tin, and gray (or alpha) tin, which is powdery and of little use.

Lower down the mountain there are groomed autobahns, and over the back are powdery glades, which is where I discovered that there was no need to ski too deep into the forest.

It is a picture postcard tropical island – the sand is powdery white, palm trees paddle their fronds in the clear warm waters, and the pace of life is as chilled as the margarita in your hand.