powderlike

Spray - an attack using a powderlike shot effect.

In this state, they are powderlike and easily packaged.

Dr. Millette said about 10 percent of a typical dust sample was the finest powderlike particles.

"People should remember that these diseases are hard to disseminate," he said, adding that anthrax spores, for example, are a powderlike substance that is not contagious.

The larvae are cream-coloured and grow to about seven millimetres long as they tunnel deeper into the wood, leaving behind them the powderlike frass of wood debris that gives them their common name.

And in most cases, he said, what workers are finding - even in buildings and apartments that have already been cleaned - is a fine powderlike material clinging to walls, floors, furniture and other furnishings.

"If the mail is not properly sealed and contains some kind of material that's powderlike, that could generate leakage to the outside," said Eli Argon, the chief executive officer of Advanced Mail Management in Potomac, Md.

He saw Tylendel raise his arms and cast a double handful of something powderlike on the ground before the door; heard him begin a chant in some strange tongue and hold his now empty hands, palm outward, to face that similarly empty gap.