Sentences with phrase «inert form»

Like the figure created by Dr. Frankenstein, the monster comes to life by a scientific manipulation of inert forms.

An instrument on the NASA AURA satellite has detected record lows of the inert forms of chlorine and rising amounts of the active ones, notes Gloria Manney, an atmospheric scientist at NorthWest Research Associates in Socorro, New Mexico.

«It may be possible to modify industrially promising chemicals to biologically inert forms that can't be activated.»

If you think about it and if they «are» right about both the causes and the effects (melting ice caps, raising sea levels — e.g. increased ocean surface worldwide, increased surface temperatures on land and at sea and erratic excesses in weather) then the results may well be an eventual drastic swing the other day as we see increases in reflection, evaporation and conversion of «greenhouse» gases back into inert forms!

Not exact matches

Almost the only elements present in interstellar space are hydrogen and helium — and the latter, being an inert or noble gas, is not a component of life in any form known to man.

There is a gradual loss of complexity in the organizational form until they descend entirely into inert matter, with no energy (recalling that energy is the composite, not the élan vital).

I do not take this lightly, but I refer such critics to the definition of matter above, remind them that I am trying to summarize a Bergsonian view (not entirely my own), and ask them to consider another law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy; and ask why (unless there is something dead or inert that resists the development of higher forms of complexity) should systems tend towards an equalized distribution of energy in spacetime?

If evolution is a fact and if the most basic meaning of evolution is that the complex forms of life emerge from the simple, how can the dualistic forms of evolutionary theory account for the emergence of the human mind from inert lifeless matter, the animate from the inanimate?

He reminds us that science is still ignorant of the chemical pathways that wonderfully allowed the inert chemicals of the earth's early history to form the more complex chemicals needed by even the simplest living organisms.

The invention of synthetic fertilizer, where nitrogen is taken from an inert chemical form in the air and turned into ammonia, has had a profound effect on nitrogen cycling.

Living forms create virtually all of the substance that flow around the inert grains.»

Assumptions that halogens are inert and that most halogenated organic matter in soils is anthropogenic have been challenged by findings of naturally formed organohalogens.

In lab experiments, they demonstrated that collagen, once viewed as inert, forms structures that regulate how certain enzymes break down and remodel body tissue.

The borosilicate glass that forms most chemical vessels is inert and hugely durable, so you can heat, cool and react the brews within knowing the glass won't explode, deform or interfere with the reaction.

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.

Assembling complex biological structures quickly and with atomic precision, the amoeba is living proof of the power of nanotechnology to transmute inert matter into wondrous forms.

Much like inert granular matter, these cells interacted with their nearest neighbors to form a «disordered collective» that transitioned between solid - like and fluid - like states.

The main nitrogen compartment is atmospheric N2 (Supplementary Table 1), which is almost inert and can only be transformed into bioavailable forms (e.g., NH3) via highly energetic processes (e.g., lightning, the Haber — Bosch process, or biological fixation of N; 30).

By this definition, pure Bentonite Clay, formed from inert volcanic ash and trace minerals, is inorganic.

But the inert interview framing narrative does no favors to the film or Natalie Portman's straining lead performance, and Larraín's attempts to convey the spirit of the era feels like watered - down Todd Haynes, minus the fascination with mystique, glamour, and forms that can make Haynes» work enticing.

Most painters responded by getting weirder, more abstract, more experimental; representational figurative art was anachronistic, inert, crusty — a form of vanity exclusive to the rich.

The result is an inert simulacrum of the once organic form.

One Cl atom can destroy numerous O3 molecules in a catalytic cycle but under normal conditions the CL will eventually react with other molecules present and form an inert compound, a so - called chlorine resovior.

WRT the application of CDR, I observe that it entails about 3.66 times the tonnage of material as does Carbon Recovery, and does so in the form of liquified CO2 rather than of inert charcoal optimized for use as a soil enhancer.

The process — known as carbon capture and storage — permanently stashes carbon underground in the form of a solid, inert mineral.

And, once the building is demolished, the material could be crumbled into sand, continuing to store the carbon, only in a different, inert, harmless form?

In comparison Be-10 quickly precipitates out of the atmosphere forming relatively inert oxidants.