Alex left for breakfast at around 7 am after learning about the shapes and structures of the powder for nearly 2 hours. During that time, he realized a few more things.
First thing was that the direction in which the ingredients were moved affected the powders in a way that created some threading-like pattern on the powder particles, threading that was similar to a screw or the inside of a nut bolt.
When moved clockwise, the threading would be protruded like that of a screw, and when moved counterclockwise, it would become sunken like that of a nut. The threading was so small that it nearly cost Alex half of his spiritual sense to focus on that small of a level.
When he just checked the powder particles on their own, the threading was actually practically invisible aside from giving a slight bit of texture to the powder.