Sentences with phrase «inerts on»

Currently, the NOP regulations base the allowance of inerts on obsolete EPA lists, which are no longer updated.

I also found that both IntelliBED mattresses and most major organic mattress brands were safe and inert on a chemical level but that the non-toxic IntelliBED was more durable.

The fact that its ride is fairly moderately tuned, supple even in Sport mode, also makes it particularly well suited to fast, undemanding road driving — although it doesn't make it feel soft or inert on a tight racetrack.

Like the earlier work, some of the abstractions look much less inert on film.

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.

Do you see any need for the environmental movement to abandon its longstanding claim that the public is inert on climate and energy because of the themes in «Merchants of Doubt» and, to an extent, «The Republican War on Science?»

Secondly, when the citation sits inert on a printed page and the cited source is online, the decision to inspect that source and when to do so is inevitably influenced by the significant discontinuity that transaction will entail.

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Serious Materials has also pumped dollars into improving technology that layers glass, coated film, and inert gas to make windows more energy efficient than almost anything else on the market.

It includes the processive, societal, dynamic picture of the cosmos; it sees that we have to do with events or happenings and not with inert and static «things»; it insists on genuine freedom and readiness to accept the consequences of decisions made in that freedom; and it is prepared to see that however difficult this may seem to be, it is persuasion rather than coercion which in the long run is effective in the world.

Both Sartre and Merleau - Ponty build on Bergsonian along with Husserlian foundations and succeed in answering, to a significant degree the questions surrounding this first concern.77 The second aspect is the metaphysical issue of the concrete relation of the vital and the inert (or being and non-being, if you prefer a traditional vocabulary), including the role of consciousness treated as «a substance spread out through the universe,» to use Merleau - Ponty's description of Bergson.78 In the first aspect we ask what consciousness does and what it experiences or «knows» as a result, while in the second we ask about the relationship between what consciousness is (in relationship to everything else that is) and what that has to do with what it does.79

The myth about matter is built on the fiction that the universe consists of nothing but a collection of inert particles, pulling and pushing each other like cogs in a deterministic machine.

I take it as granted on all sides that while the arrow is a man «made object and thus irreducibly complex, Thomas is focusing not on its manufacture but on its motion as an otherwise inert object.

Despite having a life of its own, the church takes on the life of its people, becoming them even in the inert substance of its construction: «And its walls shall be hard as!

As early as 1917 he was protesting against a then - current model of students as portmanteaux, to be packed with «inert ideas,» which were then unpacked on occasions of external examinations3 (The contents, on that theory, were the mental images which have passed since Locke as «ideas» in the British empiricist tradition.)

As synthetic inert ingredients as classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for use with nonsynthetic substances or synthetic substances listed in this section and used as an active pesticide ingredient in accordance with any limitations on the use of such substances.

• substances on EPA List 3 — Inerts of Unknown Toxicity; allowed only for use in passive pheromone dispensers.

In our process, there is a regulated quantity of inert gas flushed through each pack and therefore a raised or flat top seal on your chicken pack is not related to the «freshness» of the chicken.

By making your own stay dry inerts you can now simply lay them on top of an unstuffed pocket and voila you have a simple and cost effective All in Two system without having to do too much sewing wizardry.

A study in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology finds that mercury on the surface of dental fillings slowly turns to an inert sulfide compound, which should keep the mercury from harming the nervous system.

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.

Approached from this perspective, viruses, though not fully alive, may be thought of as being more than inert matter: they verge on life.

Conventional wisdom at the time was that moons are small, inert bodies, so the discovery of lava lakes and sulfur jets on Io came as a shock.

12 Noble gases (far right on the periodic table) have closed shells of electrons, which is why they are nearly inert.

Their convenient and practical preparation entailed template assembly of cobalt - diamine - dicarboxylic acid metal organic frameworks on carbon and subsequent pyrolysis under inert atmosphere.

And in the 1980s scientists trying to make new chemicals produced the molecule argonium (36ArH +), a strange compound not normally found on Earth that combines hydrogen with the generally inert gas argon.

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.

Even on modern - day Mars, a planet far more inert than Earth, many of the answers we might seek to our solar system's deepest mysteries have been erased by the slow workings of geology.

Named for the white fuzz that appears on the nose, wings and tail, the disease frequently causes hibernating bats to wake from the inert state, according to the Wisconsin officials.

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.

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.

In 1968, sociologist Jean Baudrillard wrote on automatism that «contained within it is the dream of a dominated world -LSB-...] that serves an inert and dreamy humanity.»

Although silica is usually chemically inert — it is chemically identical to ordinary sand — Morihara says that, by retaining the imprint of a molecule which has been resting on its surface, it is able to deter - mine the course of a reaction (Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications, 1992, p 358).

ESA reentry expertise30 March 2018 Every week, on average, a substantial, inert satellite drops into our atmosphere and burns up.

«And it's clearly telling us something important about why putting one thin layer of iron selenide on this substrate, which everyone thought was inert and boring, changes things so dramatically.

As DTSC has learned from its analysis of SPF, there is no substitute for the multi-attribute performance of SPF, no drop - in alternative for MDI used in SPF systems currently available on the market, and the cured foam is chemically inert.

Certain particle compounds may directly generate ROS in vivo because of their surface chemistry (eg, metals, organic compounds, and semiquinones) or after bioactivation by cytochrome P450 systems (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon conversion to quinones).6, 290 a, 290 b A particle surface or anions present on otherwise more inert particles may disrupt iron homeostasis in the lung and thereby also generate ROS via Fenton reactions.291 Other PM constituents may do so indirectly by the upregulation of endogenous cellular sources (eg, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [NADPH]-RRB- oxidase) 292,293 or by perturbing organelle function (eg, mitochondria) by taken - up PM components.261 Particle stimulation of irritant and afferent ANS fibers may also play a role in local and systemic oxidative stress formation.294 Given the rich antioxidant defenses in the lung fluid, secondarily generated oxidization products of endogenous molecules (eg, oxidized phospholipids, proteins) or a reduction in endogenous antioxidants per se may be responsible at least in part for the state of oxidative stress in the lungs (along with instigating the subsequent cellular responses) rather than ROS derived directly from PM and its constituents.

After much research and saving, (and after trying an expensive organic mattress that wasn't the best for us), we finally settled on a non-toxic inert IntelliBED mattress and we have absolutely loved it.

Despite a wealth of special effects and direction by Paul Verhoeven, Mr. Over-the-Top himself, this movie is surprisingly inert, more dull than anything else, with little to recommend it on any level.

Cliff Curtis is notable because he takes what could have been a very showy or inert interpretation of mental illness, and brought a particular energy that exposed the trials of the character, based on a true life New Zealand chess champion (nicknamed the «Dark Horse»).

Seemingly high - brow because it's so low - key, but underneath that veneer is an inert, thinly plotted melodrama premised on trite characterizations that would be offensive if they weren't so absurd.

The fact that the mostly inert The Shannara Chronicles is utterly familiar on both levels is a reminder that a truly vibrant fantasy story requires some sort of invention.

Ultimately, Murder on the Orient Express isn't necessarily awful; it's just inert, a prestige pic that's too busy looking handsome and respectable to evoke any real intrigue or emotional involvement.

The individual entries on Grinderman 2 are all over the map quality-wise, from inert and utterly ignorable... to half - brilliant reframings of pretty singular material.

Ultimately, there are some really strong pop moments on here, but they're overshadowed by inane, inert, insignificant drama - queening of the highest degree.

But Devil's Knot is an inert exercise, visually and dramatically on par with Drew Peterson: Untouchable.

The Last of Robin Hood, which focuses on the twilight of Errol Flynn's life and career, is an uneven mix of brilliant performances and an inert, aimless story.

Their «Rampage,» only loosely based on the games, ends up every bit as inert and hardly more fun, failing to capture more than an iota of the colorful fun of its source material.

Baggage Claim: One of the most creatively - inert films of the year, this comedy focuses on a flight attendant named Montana Moore (Paula Patton), who is looking for Mr. Right.

There is a vibrancy to some of the art direction and set design in this busy but oddly inert take on the Bram Stoker novel, which adds a bunch of mayhem but else to justify yet another take on the same story, but over the last couple of decades Argento seems to have lost all sense of directing actors.

If only the sole purpose of Churchill weren't to take ol' Winnie off the plinth and make him seem like a little more of a flesh - and - blood man — a goal the movie fails on account of being inert, decorous, and almost absurdly repetitive.