Sentences with phrase «otherwise inert»

As long as the fibers remain encapsulated or otherwise inert, there is little danger of asbestos exposure.

These remnants of landscape have been collected from friends and colleagues living in protest sites such as Egypt, Yemen, the Philippines, Indonesia, Crimea, Benghazi and Ferguson, Mo., so Kaino is elevating these otherwise inert objects into instruments for revolution.

Using diverse brush sizes, from tiny rounds to hefty flats, Krieger's loose, loopy lines twist and weave around opaque shapes, creating a sense of action in an otherwise inert, claustrophobic landscape.

Branagh's retelling of the classic Agatha Christie tale is visually sumptuous yet otherwise inert, a series of what are essentially cameos by performers far too gifted to waste their time like this.

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.

I know what it's like to be a preacher desperate for some point of contact with an otherwise inert congregation.

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.

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«Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

In 1947, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) created a distinction between two types of pesticide ingredients: «active» ingredients that kill, repel, or otherwise mitigate pests; and «inerts,» which are any other ingredients intentionally added to pesticide formulations other than the active ingredient.

Single graphene sheets are chemically reactive, but stacked layers of graphene — otherwise known as graphite, or pencil «lead» — are inert.

They suspect that something in fermentation and baking processes unleash phenolic acids otherwise rendered inert by being bound to other plant materials in flour.

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.

Otherwise, you're just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you.

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.

Organized around the concept that inanimate objects and inert cultural artifacts are conduits for narrative histories, the program considers how artists use moving images to extend the life of things and materials that would otherwise appear to be stable and resolute.

The only thing it's susceptible to is the cold and extreme heat but otherwise it's inert while oil is still changing.

Section 6517 (c)(1)(b)(ii) of OFPA provides an exemption for materials otherwise prohibited in organic agriculture to be used as inerts, so long as they are not classified by the EPA as «inerts of toxicological concern.»