Sentences with word «inert»

I have been reading up on this, it seems that this extra throttle (if you really can call it that) is just there to increase suction and therefore flow of inert gasses from the EGR valve.

Case in point: his Work No. 202: Half the air in a given space, 1998, whose Robert Barry-esque ineffability (compare that artist's designation as works, in 1969, of quantities of inert gases released into the atmosphere) is belied by the infantine delight of seeing it embodied by thousands of party balloons.

Nature merely supplies us with inert materials.

Charles McCoy of Pacific School of Religion suggests that it is «to add to the body of inert material in the library.»

When it is pure, it's stored in inert gases (e.g. argon) to prevent it from oxidizing and tarnishing.

Bitcoin, as per Satoshi's writings, is conceived of as digital cash, a «digital metal» that is as inert as gold.

Certain flea dips, as well as inert ingredients in pesticides and insecticides could also be factors involved with an increased risk of bladder cancer.

Dr. Jean - Marc Deltorn, researcher at the Centre d'études internationales de la propriété intellectuelle in Strasbourg, argues that we must remain a responsive and responsible force in this process of automation — not inert dominators.

The universe is thus seen to be composed of bits of inert matter moving through space according to deterministic laws.

Silica is also a physically and chemically inert substance, and is a major component found in ordinary sand.

Now, if you establish a pyrolysis program to go with expanded tree farming, you can convert perhaps 50 % of the trapped carbon into inert charcoal while getting a distillate of chemicals to be refined for drugs, cosmetics, etc..

We will start with a theoretical radiatively inert atmosphere which will still have undulations at the tropopause due to uneven surface heating below but they will be minimal and so for all intents and purposes the rising and falling columns will both follow the dry adiabatic lapse rate as they move up and down:

When I use malachite and lapis pigments mixed in glue - size and scraped into a coarse linen canvas, I can't help but see them as inert substances but also simultaneously as the dusk of Iceland and the atmosphere in the cloister of San Marco in Florence.

Medicine already recognizes the persuasive power of beliefs, as the authors point out; mindsets are at the root of placebo responses, they say, and «may offer an explanation for the positive effects and physiological changes that are associated with inert pills or sham procedures.»

These remnants of landscape have been collected from friends and colleagues living in protest sites such as Egypt, Yemen, the Philippines, Indonesia, Crimea, Benghazi and Ferguson, Mo., so Kaino is elevating these otherwise inert objects into instruments for revolution.

Well, the latest update for the Bixby Service finally kills the power to the key and makes it completely inert for those who already have the button turned off of its intended function.

Around this same time, in the «60s, he also started working with invisible, ephemeral elements like inert gases, electromagnetic energy, and ultrasonic radiation, as well as with notions like telepathy.

Another approach, using inert DNA sequences as a tag, is being refined and tested by BaseTrace, a startup company created last year by a group of former Duke University graduate students (its name has changed from SafeTNA).

It's odd, really — the wood grain, so inert on its own, is suddenly transformed into a violent gesture, as though even the most unassuming of natural phenomena would look feral next to the mechanical absolutes of Op Art abstraction.

Haynes's cinematic approach to Wonderstruck is similar to those cabinets: This is a film that feels inert at times despite being crammed with ideas.

However, at the other end of the scale, excessive exposure to sunlight does not result in vitamin D overdose, because previtamin D3 and vitamin D3 are photolyzed to biologically inert chemicals before they can build up to dangerous levels.

Other approaches might convert CO2 into some more inert form such as carbonate rocks or something giving potentially better sequestration but essentially there is a huge energy cost for the chemistry involved.

Re-clean that area with a good enzyme cleaner and don't allow your puppy to wander over there again until you're sure it's been made chemically inert by the cleaner.

Currently, the NOP regulations base the allowance of inerts on obsolete EPA lists, which are no longer updated.

Knightfall's muddied, dull clash of warring religious nonentities never commits to any aspect of its tale, which renders this newest period piece as dramatically inert as it is historically valueless.

As you quite correctly said, we need to consider all kinetic energy (KE) and potential energy (PE), the latter including chemical energy which you thought was relevant, but is not for inert molecules making up nearly all the troposphere.

Paul Noble may have initially been the popular, and the bookies» favourite, but as technically impressive as his panoramic drawings are they are also quite lifeless, made inert by the process of their meticulous execution.

Microchips are produced of biologically inert materials, and individually sterilized and packaged.

When Hata tuned his apparatus to add about 100 parts per million of water to hydrocarbons — the source of the carbon for the growing tubes — and other inert carrier gases, the water reacted with the amorphous carbon from the catalyst particles but didn't damage the growing nanotubes.

They suspect that something in fermentation and baking processes unleash phenolic acids otherwise rendered inert by being bound to other plant materials in flour.

Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science and nanoengineering, said hot electrons are particularly interesting for solar - energy applications because they can be used to create devices that produce direct current or to drive chemical reactions on otherwise inert metal surfaces.

Or educationally inert states like Nebraska and South Dakota that may just need a kick in the pants?

Descartes said he can move himself from this place to that in space or in his thinking because he has an inner reality, his mind, which is different from inert things.

The reason is that they are over-laden with inert ideas.

For instance, water ice plays the role of relatively inert rock or dirt on Pluto because it's usually too cold to change form into liquid or vapor.

Because noble gases are chemically inert at conditions relevant to processes on Earth, they don't react with other elements.

To add to the problem, driving enthusiasts are unlikely to fall in love with the rather inert steering and noisy, slow CVT gearbox, while owners after a really comfortable car will be disappointed by the firm ride.

That would get about 50 % of the carbon into inert charcoal while destroying germs, drugs and most toxics greatly reducing water pollution problems.

Metals in basalt have the ability to transform CO2 into a solid inert mineral in a matter of months.

By contrast, fusion would produce no waste, just inert helium, and its fuel can be extracted from seawater.

The tubes are filled with inert helium gas to improve the heat conduction from the pellets to cladding that is cooled by the water that circulates outside the tubes.

«Although well - established and mature, the field of carbon fibers has largely remained inert to using and benefiting from the intensive theoretical development in the «young» field of low - dimensional nanocarbon,» said Evgeni Penev, a research scientist in Yakobson's lab and co-author of the paper.

Newtonian physics placed this metaphysical view into question when it regarded nature as inert mass, i.e., dead matter, moved from without by efficient causality.

Wherever possible, our installations utilize green materials such as reclaimed and / or sustainably - harvested lumber, post-industrial recycled green roofing materials, and durable, inert metals that are designed to last for generations.

They added chrysotile minerals, bacterial DNA molecules called plasmids that had genes for antibiotic resistance, and silica beads representing inert rock.

One of the Holy Grails in chemical science has been to find the late - stage, site - specific incorporation of a halogen atom into a complex natural product by replacing an sp ³ C - H bond (one of the most inert chemical bonds known in an organic compound) with a C - X bond (X = halogen).

In fact, the study of particles emitted by reactors led to the first detection of neutrinos in the 1950s, a finding once considered impossible due to the extremely inert nature of these particles, which were then only predicted.