Several allotropes of boron exist: amorphous boron is a brown powder and crystalline boron is black, extremely hard ( about 9. 5 on the Mohs scale ), and a poor conductor at room temperature.

Agar is a popular gelatin substitute in quick jelly powder mix and prepared dessert gels that can be stored at room temperature.

File: Fort Ticonderoga, store room and powder magazine. jpg | Store room and powder magazine ; soldiers ' barracks at right

It was Jeff's idea to stow away, but it was Orville ' smoking in the powder room ' that caused the explosion.

Later, on a boat home, Orville sneaks into the powder room for a cigarette.

The actors hide in the powder rooms until Hitler arrives and takes his seat, and then, as the Nazis are singing the German national anthem inside, Greenberg suddenly appears from the ladies ' room and charges toward Hitler's box.

Many of the English ships were short on powder after three days of fighting, while most of the Dutch ships still had a sufficient supply as they had a relatively larger cargo room, smaller guns, and a less well-trained, and therefore slower firing, crew.

In his book, he states that the USS Maine was designed incorrectly because the boiler room was right next to the gunpowder storage room and that an overheating in the boiler room may have heated the adjacent metal wall, causing the powder to explode.

The resulting metal powder will immediately disperse after knocking out the door lock, and cause little or no damage to occupants of the room.

( c ) Finally, filling Lord British's throne room with powder kegs, igniting one, and standing clear of the blasts was sufficient to kill him.

In the United States, bathrooms are generally categorized as master bathroom, containing a shower and a tub that is adjoining to a master bedroom, a " full bathroom " ( or " full bath "), containing four plumbing fixtures: bathtub, shower, toilet, and sink ; " half ( 1 / 2 ) bath " ( or " powder room ") containing just a toilet and sink ; and " 3 / 4 bath " containing toilet, sink, and shower, although the terms vary from market to market.

The Florida version also does not include the scene past the powder room with the intoxicated pirates firing cannons.

In 2003, the ferry was the subject of the documentary Ferry Tales, which followed the conversations of women in the powder room during the morning commute.

The sketch features a child plaintiff ( usually played by Drake Bell, Josh Peck, Raquel Lee, and / or another child actor ) " suing " an adult defendant ( played by Johnny Kassir, Nancy Sullivan, and or another adult actor ) for petty incidents against the child like giving a kid a shot, telling the kid to turn down their stereo, giving a kid an apple instead of candy on Halloween, telling a kid to please stop mocking someone, making a kid take a bath after playing in the mud, or sending a kid up to their room for refusing to kiss their aunt or even deserved punishments such as a grounding or an after-school detention given where as the child will have done something deserving of far worse punishment such as pushing the Principal's car into a swimming pool, playing baseball in the house, egging someone's house on Halloween, filling the house with water, selling a house for a large amount of money to go to an expensive theme park, releasing zoo animals from their cages, painting the White House pink, gluing everything in the entire classroom, putting itching powder in someone's clothes, painting someone orange, stealing an expensive space shuttle and losing it, or shutting down the Internet.

Snails falls into a quicksand trap in Damodar's room after finding the map and some magical powder.

It followed the conversations of women in the powder room of the Staten Island Ferry during the morning commute from Staten Island to Manhattan.

The centre's main parts are 7 conference salons and an exhibition space with an area of 700 square metres, and its other features are a lobby, a training room, two powder rooms, a radio and television studio, and reception services.

Thus, while normal graphite is reduced to a powder by a mixture of concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids at room temperature, glassy carbon is unaffected by such treatment, even after several months.

The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.

For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.

The measured powder density of the Af used here was about Af, approximately one-third that of the crystal density ( Af ).

In the first few experiments Af was passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and absorbed twice with 50 - 100 mg sweet clover tissue powder.

After Af and Af were passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and treated twice with healthy sweet clover tissue powder, nonspecific staining was greatly reduced but a disturbing amount of such staining was still present.

In our work the best procedure for removing substances causing nonspecific staining in order to obtain specific conjugates was to pass the conjugates through a DEAE-cellulose column and in some cases to absorb the first and second milliliter fractions with sweet clover tissue powder.

Until the late 19th century the only available propellant was black powder.

Nitrocellulose was significantly more powerful than black powder, and was smokeless.

The anthrax was in a powder form and it was delivered by the mail.

The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.

Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel and was the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder.

Though early thermal weapons, such as Greek fire, have existed since ancient times, the first widely used explosive in warfare and mining was black powder, invented in 9th century China ( see the history of gunpowder ).

The first useful explosive stronger than black powder was nitroglycerin, developed in 1847.

As nitroglycerin was unstable, it was replaced by nitrocellulose, smokeless powder, dynamite and gelignite ( the two latter invented by Alfred Nobel ).

By 1991, it was relatively easy to produce gram-sized samples of fullerene powder using the techniques of Donald Huffman, Wolfgang Krätschmer and Konstantinos Fostiropoulos.

In older firearms, the propellant was typically black powder, but modern firearms use smokeless powder or other propellants.

Using the matchlock mechanism, the powder in the gun barrel was ignited by a piece of burning cord called a " match ".

It operated using a small wheel much like that on cigarette lighters which was wound up with a key before use and which, when the trigger was pulled, spun against a flint, creating the shower of sparks that ignited the powder in the touch hole.

Douglass found powder intensity calculations and measurements to agree best for Af.

he made fresh coffee and searched through all the desk drawers for more cigarettes before thinking of her handbag, and found a crumpled stray cigarette at its bottom, which tasted peculiarly of face powder.

Cumin can be an ingredient in chili powder ( often Texan or Mexican-style ), and is found in achiote blends, adobos, sofrito, garam masala, curry powder, and bahaarat.

Not only did corned powder keep better because of its reduced surface area, gunners also found that it was more powerful and easier to load into guns.

They found that mixing an aluminium soap powder of naphthenate and palmitate ( hence na-palm ), also known as napthenic and palmitic acids, with gasoline produced a brownish sticky syrup that burned more slowly than raw gasoline.

Enamel paints sometimes contain glass powder or tiny metal flake fragments instead of the color pigments found in standard oil-based paints.

Although deposits of graphite had been found in other parts of the world, they were not of the same purity and quality as the Borrowdale find, and had to be crushed to remove the impurities, leaving only graphite powder.

England continued to enjoy a monopoly on the production of pencils until a method of reconstituting the graphite powder was found.

Calzecchi found that the conductivity of metal powder varied depending on the incidence of radio waves.

It comes in the form of flakes, or as a yellow powder similar in texture to cornmeal, and can be found in the bulk aisle of most natural food stores.

The first, coup de poudre ( French: " powder strike "), includes tetrodotoxin ( TTX ), a powerful and frequently fatal neurotoxin found in the flesh of the pufferfish ( order Tetraodontidae ).

The soft, moist, white inner bark ( cambium ) found clinging to the woody outer bark is edible and very high in vitamins A and C. It can be eaten raw in slices as a snack or dried and ground up into a powder for use as a thickener in stews, soups, and other foods, such as Finnish pine bark bread ( pettuleipä ).

While details of the device found in Britain were not released, photographs emerged on the US media of an ink toner cartridge covered in white powder and connected to a circuit board.

The powder found in contaminated postal letters was composed of extracellular anthrax endospores.

When the dead body of Culshaw was examined, a pistol wad ( crushed paper used to secure powder and balls in the muzzle ) found in his head wound matched perfectly with a torn newspaper found in Toms ' pocket.

Still, General Montcalm and two of his military engineers surveyed the works in 1758 and found something to criticize in almost every aspect of the fort's construction ; the buildings were too tall and thus easier for attackers ' cannon fire to hit, the powder magazine leaked, and the masonry was of poor quality.

* Alum powder, found in the spice section of many grocery stores, may be used in pickling recipes as a preservative to maintain fruit and vegetable crispness.

Spicer noted that no powder burns were found on his clothing.

found more of the powder packed onto the bottom and lower sides of the

He found arrows with no bows, a gun with no powder or stones, and breastplates but no chain-mail or helmets.

The fine hairs found inside rose hips are used as itching powder.