Powder

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Powder may refer to a number of topics, including:

• Powder material composed of very fine particles that are not cemented together
• Powder (film), a 1995 film
• Powder (band), a mid-1990s Britpop band.
• Powder (doom metal band), a Filipino doom metal band formed by composer and songwriter Nephi Malit
• Powder (book), a 2000 book by Kevin Sampson
• Powder blue, a color
• Powder, a song from the soundtrack of Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER), a W3C Working Group that is specifying a protocol for publishing descriptions of (e.g. metadata about) Web resources using RDF, OWL, and HTTP.

Several powdery substances are known colloquially as "powder":

• Powdered milk, a milk powder made from dried milk solids
• Cosmetic powders such as face powder and body or talcum powders
• Gunpowder, the explosive powder used as a propellant
• Baking powder, a leavening agent
• Fine snowfall
• Laundry detergent in powder form
• Cocaine

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