Sentences with phrase «of inert»

We used observations of inert and radioactive chemical constituents («tracers») to estimate the rates at which the ocean transports material from the surface to the interior.

This led to Europe's Green Parties lobbying the EU to simultaneously implement higher standards of energy conservation in building codes, and promote by an advertising campaign «Green Appliences» employing not just chlorine free HFC's, but toxic and flammable refrigerants like ammonia and propane that had been widely banned after the emergence of the inert Freons in the 1940's.

In some cases, we deliberately inject small amounts of inert trace gases into specific water bodies (e.g., the Hudson River) and study their spreading and mixing.

The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), which provides recommendations to the NOP, has been attempting to align the regulation of inert ingredients used in organic compliant pesticides with the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (OFPA) for over a decade.

The modern social sciences — sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history and, we may add, philosophy — rest on the assumption that the grand and the humdrum events of human life take place against a backdrop of an inert nature.

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.

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.

Flood - Paddock's work seeks to expose the emotional dimensions of inert objects and what they reveal about human interaction.

Because of this inert, neutral quality, Pearlstein's nudes often have cropped heads or limbs, or exaggerated features, as when a leg or arm is foreshortened or elongated, or a hand or foot is outsized.

While seemingly a display of inert monochrome works from afar, the curious viewer is rewarded with highly responsive, undulating fields of material upon closer inspection.

As our experience of particular painting alters, instead of the inert images, these works became events.

The chip is made of an inert, biocompatible material that will not disintegrate, rust or cause an allergic reaction and will last the life or your pet.

Intraocular lenses are made of inert materials like polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) with flexible haptics to stabilize the lens within the capsular bag.

The replacement lens is made of an inert material which is well tolerated and inhibits cataract regrowth.

This means that the rear of the vehicle is pushed outwards after a time lag because of the inert forces from the engine's mass acting on it.

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.

He shows how reform after reform has gone forward with the same assumptions: that students are passive recipients of instruction, that teachers are all - powerful molders of inert student clay, and that students have no responsibility for their own academic success.

Tomorrow: I don't expect a lot of inert loveliness in Takashi Miike's Yakuza Apocalypse, which is only screening once here, at an inconvenient time, and is therefore wreaking major havoc on my schedule.

What it is interested in, unfortunately, is lots of inert scenes in which McCarthy allows his characters to pontificate at length about Big Issues like death, love, money, despair, family and many other things.

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.

An understanding of these acid free - A characteristic of inert materials; especially said of papers with a 7 pH, or very close to 7 pH. Below pH or above pH is not

I can't argue with the pointed sarcasm of «A lactating cow is not some kind of inert beverage vending machine for humans»!

A lactating cow is not some kind of inert handy beverage vending machine for humans.

There is a problem with their birth control packs, such that, some of the inert pills may be mixed up with the active ingredient pills.

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.

This design permits excision of all but 238 bp of inert proviral DNA, lacking both promoter activity and polyadenylation signals, following cleavage by Cre.

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

This generated a palette of inert green, cyan, yellow, and blue variants that can be used in various combinations.

«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.

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.

The balloon is immersed in a bath of inert oil to prevent interference from background radiation.

So the 1920 prize was given to the Swiss Charles - Edouard Guillaume for his ho - hum discovery of an inert nickel - steel alloy.

• Blast it away: Boeing wants to send up a rocket that could dispel the debris with blasts of inert gas.

It's one of the inert gases that normally exist as single atoms.

Some researchers argue that they are bits of inert mineral; others contend they are among the world's smallest and oldest living organisms.

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

It was a subject - oriented adjective that was used to label the harmful, injurious, unpleasant or undesirable reactions (or responses) that a subject manifested - thus, nocebo reactions (or nocebo responses)- as a consequence of the administration of an inert, dummy drug, in cases where these responses had not been chemically generated, and were entirely due to the subject's pessimistic belief and expectation that the inert drug in question would produce harmful, injurious, unpleasant or undesirable consequences.

Its journey started in the Oort Cloud, a vast swarm of inert comets that stretches from the edge of our solar system nearly halfway to the next star.

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.

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.

The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), which provides recommendations to the NOP, has been attempting to align the regulation of inert ingredients used in organic compliant pesticides with the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 (OFPA) for over a decade.

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

Intellect is very much in tune with matter, and this is why Bergson will even say that the physics and metaphysics of inert matter are very near each other.

Moreover, it is only with regard to the negative current, the sphere of inert matter, that science has any absolute value.

Modern physics supports us in our proposal that the constituents of nature are not the lifeless particles that we tend to imagine as tiny versions of inert chunks of matter.

Education becomes «the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge,» and the pitfalls of inert ideas and the disconnection of subjects in a school curriculum are to be avoided.

I would hesitate somewhat to use the term «novel» for this succession of inert present moments which allow us to see, from underneath, the mechanical economy of something deliberately staged» (LPE 41).

Indeed, a feeling is first and foremost a subjective, concrete experience and not a property or attribute of some inert object, let alone something composed solely of abstract entities, whatever their degree of complexity and organization.7 In brief, then, a concrete percipient event is a feeling experience, which presupposes a body capable of experiencing feelings.

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

It would be a universe of chance alone, «a gigantic accident», if what happened simply depended upon the juggling of inert bits of stuff.