Your search - powderous site:ac.uk - did not match any documents.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&esrch=Be...856 from ac.uk for powdery.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&esrch=Be...23 for powderous site:edu
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&esrch=Be...526 for powdery site:edu
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&esrch=Be...I'm not a scientist, but
zero hits at UK universities makes me question this entry. Perhaps you need to research into whether it is used only in the US or Canada, for example, or whether it is old - or perhaps it is mainly used in Germany. Your Google Scholar hits above are written by these people:
E Weidner - Uni Bochum, Germany
J Meyer, D Bernelin - US Patent 4,412,034, 1983 - Google Patents
W Heimke - US Patent 4,030,755, 1977 - Google Patents
E Hümmer, X Lu, T Rettelbach, J Fricke - Journal of ..
etc.
"Powderous" is not in my New Shorter OED or in Merriam-Webster - maybe someone could check the big OED or has a scientific dictionary?
(re alloys:
82 from ac.uk for "alloy powder".
0 from ac.uk for "powderous alloy" or "powdery alloy")