Custard powder makes a delicious dessert but also has a rather less savoury potential – in certain conditions, it can be a powerful explosive.

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For teaching engineers in training to avoid catastrophic workplace accidents, this dust explosion tube does the job. Vanessa Campbell, a fourth-year University of Virginia student, was testing the ...

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Skyland Grain, based in Ulysses, Kansas, US, operates grain elevators in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas with a total licensed grain storage capacity of about 174 million bushels. Skyland Grain ...

As a dust storm hits the area, firefighters spray water on a fire at the maintenance facilities of the public transportation service Sun Metro in El Paso, Texas. [AP Photo/Andres Leighton] On ...

A hopper of powder overflowed, and the resulting dust cloud ignited, exploding into flame. Nine people were injured in the explosion. They were lucky – powder explosions can be lethal.