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Any powdered organic material, when mixed with large volumes of air, CAN explode. It is very rapid combustion. In 2008, anexplosion was triggered by powdered sugar that killed 14 people and injured 36. However, as an explosives engineer, nutmeg would not be my first choice for an explosive.

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