Sentences with phrase «most inert»

Ocean heat content is one of the most inert components of the climate system, second only to the huge ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica (hopefully at least — if the latter are not more unstable than we think).»

And who expected the most inert of chemicals (according to my sixties - era high school science books)-- the CFCs — would eat the ozone layer?

They are the most inert cookware I've found and they don't leach anything into food.

Our moxFPs currently represent one of the most inert solutions for imaging in a variety of cellular compartments including the secretory pathway (Figure 2), the inner membrane space of mitochondria and chloroplasts, the extracellular milieu, and gram negative bacteria periplasm.

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 winter, bears are among the most inert mammals known; they don't even urinate during their 5 - to 7 - month - long hibernation.

Not exact matches

Like most supervisory bodies in Europe, the board of DB has proven remarkably inert in recent years, basically a reflection of the lax governance of banks more generally in the EU.

IndieWire calls it «Malick's most accessible work in years» while the Hollywood Reporter pans it as «inert» and «enervating.»

For Descartes the most real things about himself were his feelings and thoughts that inert things and non-human creatures do not have.

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?

Leibniz had also argued against most seventeenth - century thinkers, that whatever is purely inert, and without any capacity to act, is nothing, so that the source of the action of all things is intrinsic to them.

There are a substantial number of quality checks at every stage, and once we have final approval from the sampling room the product in the bottling vat is then passed through an inert food grade filter as a safety measure to ensure that our product meets the most demanding standards.»

What's more, Tyvek ® is a chemically inert material that won't rot or mildew — even under the most challenging conditions.

Tyvek ® brand materials are inherently water resistant, inert to most organic and inorganic chemicals and stand up to mishandling and abuse.

Most models will turn into an inert object that you will have to drag home after battery life is over.

The Little Spruce Organics website states that polyurethane laminate is an inert material, so in order for it to release harmful chemicals it would need to be heated to extremely high temperatures, so most cloth diaper covers are considered «safe.»

«Most of us look at our guts and our hips and our love handles and think of fat as an inert substance that merely collects and hangs off of us,» he says.

It is possible, Farmer says, that Martian microbes could spend most of their time as inert spores «waiting for something good to happen,» only springing to life given the right and very rare conditions.

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

To do this, the team first pumped all the oxygen out of the chamber, and instead filled it with inert nitrogen or carbon dioxide — the most common components of the Martian atmosphere.

Most solutions involve pumping some combination of mud or fly ash combined with an inert gas or water, but the mixture does not always flow thoroughly enough to cover the burning coal, and it can crack when dried, allowing oxygen to get back in.

Although graphite is known as one of the most chemically inert materials, we have found that graphene, a single atomic plane of graphite, can react with atomic hydrogen, which transforms this highly conductive zero - overlap semimetal into an insulator.

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.

In most cases, the final polyethylenes are inert and stubbornly resistant to breakdown.

«It was largely assumed to be inert and just kind of disappear after activation, and most textbooks and research papers don't even show it as a distinct portion of Notch receptors.»

Once considered biologically inert, the body's most abundant sugar can permanently alter some proteins.

Although Earth's atmosphere is rich in nitrogen, the inert atmospheric gas is useless to most organisms.

A key new measurement of the inert gas argon in Mars» atmosphere by Curiosity's laboratory provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origin of Mars meteorites while at the same time providing a way to rule out Martian origin of other meteorites.

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.

Most of the rest is an inert mineral called gypsum.

The only time the «Harry Potter» franchise stooped to splitting a book into two (and the book was itself not the longest of the series), while all other credentials are present and correct — David Yates is in his stride as the franchise's most reliable director; the actors are the best they'll be; the visuals are as dramatic as the themes — the installment is let down by ending in mid-air and having a whole inert section where the three kids play house in a forest.

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.

This is after the movie's climax, which features the motley crew of living exhibits returning to their natural state of inert unconsciousness, and, yes, during that scene, too, the most pressing worry is that the monkey isn't alive.

Promising to follow the James M. Cain pot - boiler formula with its dense voiceovers and faux - sordid, sepia - stained sexing, Ask the Dust is actually just inert, a painfully - overwritten, impossible - to - execute picture loaded down with self - conscious slatted shadows and mirrors (and all manner of noir affectations) that isn't only set in 1930s Los Angeles, but plays exactly as anachronistic and fusty as most films produced in the Thirties, too.

Consider this British would - be tearjerker the date movie equivalent of Batman v Superman: both ghastly and flat, and inert when it should be its most heart - stopping moments.

David E. Talbert, who wrote and directed this movie (based off his own novel), offers up here one of the year's most creatively - inert flicks of the year.

Jackie turned me off with its inert and heavy - handed framing narrative (in which the widowed Jackie Kennedy is interviewed by a Life reporter), though I came to appreciate some of its most claustrophobic sequences.

For the most part these materials are inert, but on rare occasions dogs with sensitive skin or skin allergies may develop skin irritations to some materials.

Inert or coated gravel is the right choice in most freshwater environments.

The plastics and resins with which these products are constructed are easy to maintain, inexpensive and most importantly, inert.

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.

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.

Latex, a rubbery material used for molds, was adapted by Hesse for its inert and artless quality; unfortunately, it is not an archival material, and nearly 50 years later Aught appears to be on the verge of crumbling into dust, which most likely would have pleased Hesse, who loved the expression of fragility in her work.

Like most solid surfaces, it's VOC free and totally inert and solid.

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