Sentences with phrase «made inert»

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.

This antioxidant reacts with free radicals (which cause cell damage) in the bloodstream and makes them inert.

It has a unique molecular structure that binds to heavy metals, making them inert.

Thanks to the use of lighter construction materials like aluminum, some «body on frame» SUVs have significantly improved fuel economy ratings, therefore making their inert ability tow more weight and soak up unpaved terrain more accessible to those who like to explore.

Not exact matches

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.

The problem is that components can degrade, making the weapons either unstable, so they can blow up in a soldier's hand, or inert, so that soldiers can't fire the weapons, leaving them vulnerable in battle.

Newton saw the world as a marvelous, inert machine, made up of isolated substances that followed the model of a clock.

In each one the seed is hidden, more or less inert or active, of that spiritual disease which today throughout the world is bursting out into a homicidal, myth - making phobia, and the secret soul of which is resentment against the Gospel: «Christophobia.»

Thus contemporary physics supports the proposal made earlier that events rather than solid particles of inert matter are the fundamental units of nature.

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.

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.

And it is true, of course, that aggregates made up of concrete moments of feeling exhibit macroscopically inert qualities.

Time gravity filling machines for corrosive products are constructed entirely out of inert plastic and fiberglass with even the fasteners (nuts and bolts) being made of fiberglass.

Glass's inert properties make it the best packaging product for spirits and food for now and the future.

It's wonderful stuff, made of silicon and glass, completely inert.

Also, the can is an inert environment, so wines must be made ready to drink, but this doesn't mean it can't hold quality wines.

Silicone is an inert material that is durable and rubbery making it an ideal teething material for babies.

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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.

This sippy bottle is made from aluminum and has a completely inert, water - based epoxy lining that does not leach harmful chemicals.

The structure of the House of Representatives makes New York's Democratic delegation largely inert.

Because this is made of collagen, a biologically inert material, there is no issue of the recipient's body rejecting it.

Ion engines work by stripping electrons from the atoms of an inert gas such as xenon, making them positively charged.

Scientists now believe the primeval atmosphere contained an inert mix of carbon dioxide and nitrogen — a change that made a world of difference.

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.

It is made of iron - rich salts that dissolve in water and a host of other inert soapy solutions, the same types found in mouthwash or fabric softener, according to the University of Bristol.

For example, eight - or 22 - atom gold particles are catalytic, while those made up of seven or 20 atoms are inert.

The sculptures are made with carefully researched environmentally - friendly materials which actively promote coral growth, with inert Ph neutral properties designed to last hundreds of years.

Their findings have been recently published in EPJ D and are particularly relevant for the development of novel applications in medicine, health care and materials processing because they involve air at normal atmospheric pressure, which would make it cheaper than applications in inert gases or nitrogen.

This approach to making uranium reactive suggests new directions for attacking the element's inert nature and may «model the principles that lead to [uranium] degradation in nature,» which remain unknown, he says.

«This finding makes a deep connection between the physics of inert granular matter such as sand and the geometry of multicellular living systems,» said lead author Lior Atia, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at Harvard Chan School.

Nanomaterials, even when made of inert elements like gold, become highly active at nanometer dimensions.

If the reactors are suitably designed, a minimum of supervision should make it possible to prevent the substitution of uranium and thorium for the inert structure of the materials of the reactors.

Recent studies have shown that belly fat is not metabolically inert, but rather actively promotes the secretion of many powerful hormones that not only make it more difficult to lose body weight, but also promote systemic inflammation that raises the risk for heart failure, cardiovascular diseases and DNA aberrations that help cancer cells to grow and metastasize.

Will the active, inert and hidden ingredients in a vaccine make you question if you want vaccines in your body?

Inert, synthetic compounds generally used to improve make product glide smoothly over the skin.

«Fallacy: Colloidal silver made with salt is completely safe because Dr. Robert O. Becker says that silver chloride is inert and thus harmless, and the EPA has demonstrated that silver chloride is 30 times less toxic than silver nitrate.

His part's poorly written and the script gives him a lot of bad dialogue and strange behavior — the best being in the film's inert climax, accompanied by some real bad music by Howard Shore — but Armitage makes it work.

As for Clooney, he has been stripped of the self - deprecating character tics that made even his dramatic roles in «Michael Clayton» and «Up in the Air» such joys to behold; here he plays someone so closed - off he's virtually inert.

Kevin Smith «s «Yoga Hosers» is a flabby, goofy, comically inert cartoon that pits two teen clerks against Canadian Nazis and little creatures made of sausage.

It's not poorly made, nor is it plagued by the kinds of technical issues that you might expect from such an inert film.

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.

Less successful is Ifans, who makes for a droopy sort of villain, all but immobilized by melancholy with his sad eyes and hang - dog expression, he is an inert element in an otherwise delightfully kinetic exercise.

A black and white philosophy that the hotel dwellers and forest people merely operate on two extreme sides of the same coin, equally governed by shallow and trivial rules, shying away from any real emotion and humanity, fascinates as social commentary, but ultimately makes an absolutely funny and often unique film feel narratively inert.

«Zero Charisma» is a movie about emotionally inert people who labor mightily to change their lives in small ways, and whose efforts at self - improvement are thwarted by emotional feedback loops that cause them to make the same mistakes over and over.

The fact that Ant - Man is the product of a last - minute handoff and the studio scrambling to find a replacement makes the film oddly inert.

One is tempted to blame a 86 - minute run time, and the rushed nature of some character awakenings (Edwards's in particular) would seem to support that, but then the snail's pace of the talky, inert proceedings make the film — and Murphy — feel like its wasting its precious, limited time.

It differs from Iron Man's suit in that way because it doesn't need a battery source like an arc reactor, which makes it harder to render Black Panther's suit inert.

Her performance is the least ostentatious thing to ever grace a Tom Hooper film (nearly good enough to make us forgive the filmmaker for his inert «Les Miserables «-RRB-.

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.