Meanings of impalpable powder in English

Pennsylvania Avenue, when they reached it, was a billowy channel of impalpable powder.

Its edges, where her fingers held it, already were breaking away into a fine, impalpable powder.

We dive into it and up on the opposite side, carrying a moving cloud of impalpable powder with us.

The impalpable powder penetrated their clothes, smarted in their eyes, and all but choked them, even behind the veiling neckerchiefs.

Charcoal, reduced to an impalpable powder, and mixed with an equal quantity of magnesia, renders the teeth white, and stops putrefaction.

In the silence and stillness and brooding heat, the larks came and dusted themselves in the white impalpable powder of the road.

The method of laying colors on Daguerreotypes is one of considerable difficulty, inasmuch as they are used in the form of perfectly dry impalpable powder.