Bromine even reacts with relatively inert elements such as platinum and palladium. |
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Precious metals are elements that are rare in the Earth's crust, are attractive to look at, and are chemically quite inert. |
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Yesterday the European adventurers rode their luck and came away with a draw which their largely inert performance barely deserved. |
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This is best done by storing in an inert gas chamber or in a vacuum chamber. |
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Tungsten arc welding, using inert shielding gases, is hardly a new process. |
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Initially, I guessed and told her they might package the salad in an inert or nonoxygen atmosphere of nitrogen or maybe argon. |
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There is surprisingly little oxidation of the image, and the institute will be keeping it in a box filled with inert argon gas. |
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By surrounding hot metals with inert argon, the metals are protected from potential oxidation by oxygen in the air. |
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The products that on paper seemed to be bombproof and virtually inert turned out to be part of a system that propagates mold, mildew, and rot. |
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Without ascriptions of meaning, formal and analytical knowledge is inert, unactualised, imperceptible. |
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Normally it is said that gold has no biochemical purpose, because it is chemically inert. |
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An inert gas then propels the liquid through an ultrasonic nozzle that atomizes it. |
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The stage is lusterless, the direction inert, the action scrappy, and every invitation for theatrical excitement turned aside. |
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To these traditional ingredients they add inert temperature-controlled fermentation and maturation in new oak, mainly French. |
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It should be emphasized that not all synonymous changes may be selectionally inert. |
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Mars's atmosphere is completely inert, no chemical reactions could go on there. |
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The term fluxing also includes the treatment of nonferrous melts by inert or reactive gases to remove solid or gaseous impurities. |
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The end point of decomposition is a largely inert organic material called humus. |
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I'm less impressed with the recent work, which is mostly a stony croak over monotonal and mostly inert melodies, but it's not all bad. |
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The nitrogen we breathe is chemically inert and takes no part in the chemical or metabolic reactions in the body. |
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When mixed into a slurry with water it sets rapidly into a uniform, solid, inert mass. |
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Despite their name they are neither biologically, chemically nor toxicologically inert. |
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Soft microenvironments could be selected during the process of gelation as inert particles migrate through the forming gel. |
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In a crowded, stuffy room, overhead fans strained to circulate the inert air. |
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A 180-degree turn of a small key inserted at the rear of the bolt shroud renders the rifle inert by locking the firing pin and bolt. |
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Fluorescent lamps generate light by passing electricity through a tube filled with inert gas and a small amount of mercury. |
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The halibut is steamed into a kind of inert blandness, but the swordfish is a satisfying combination of gourmet flavor and heft. |
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Neon is the second element in Group 18 of the periodic table, a group of elements known as the inert or noble gases. |
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Indeed, this is one retelling of the classic children's story that feels inert, unappetizing, and downright revolting. |
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Some like feisty, noisy, slightly aggressive animals but others, like me, prefer inert but cheerfully disobliging ones. |
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They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things. |
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But when I walked through and under them, the fabric looked heavy and inert, more like drapes than filmy wind-yielding robes. |
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They offer chemically inert fluid paths of Teflon, Kel-F, and borosilicate glass. |
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These are then carried to the chamber in which the coating will be applied by an inert carrier gas such as nitrogen. |
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Made of an inert mineral fiber, the embers are non-combustible and non-toxic, so they are safe for handling. |
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You have to generate visual energy, emotions and memories with inert, dead materials. |
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The children all squinched their eyes together tightly, forcing themselves to stay inert, struggling to focus on keeping their eyes shut. |
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After all, the image of politically inert women reinforces cherished myths about motherhood. |
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Gold has been prized because it is the most inert metal, changeless and incorruptible. |
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Because the heavy quark is relatively inert, one can extract the properties of different light-quark configurations from the hadronic spectrum. |
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Niobium is a relatively inert element, although it does react with oxygen and concentrated acids at high temperatures. |
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Gases that reach the stratosphere can remain there for many years, particularly if they are chemically inert. |
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They are inert, high-purity powders with no caloric value and are virtually colorless, odorless and tasteless in food formulations. |
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Alternatively, we let inert hanging bug zappers slaughter any bug stupid enough to stumble in with a small shower of crackling blue light. |
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The inert gas prevents the wire filament inside the bulb from reacting chemically with oxygen and burning out quickly. |
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In fact, a large proportion of carcinogens is chemically inert and requires metabolic activation to exert their detrimental effects. |
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This is a chamber that can be evacuated and purged with inert gas until all active gases are removed. |
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Krypton is the fourth member of Group 18 of the periodic table, a group of elements known as the noble gases or inert gases. |
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He did not assume that an inert and common matter was sufficient for a plausible formulation of a theory of mechanical epigenesis. |
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When uranium decays to lead, a by-product of this process is the formation of helium, a very light, inert gas which readily escapes from rock. |
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Yet post-modern politics is remarkably inert in the face of the challenge of constructing a new kind of state. |
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After many experiments he finally married it successfully with the inert claylite, otherwise known as diatomaceous or infusorial earth. |
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Our political parties are inert, and that's the reason behind the emergence of the radical groups which are filling in the political vacuum. |
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He was swishing it in each time and slowly strolling to the ball, which bounced feebly once when it hit the surface and remained inert. |
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It is easy to assume that the director's reticent, classically self-effacing style is merely decorative, dry, or inert. |
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All phospholipids are hygroscopic and pick up water if they are not handled properly under inert gas atmosphere. |
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None of these visual coups comes off with much theatrical energy, and the stage action is often fatally inert. |
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He glanced over his shoulder, then spun completely around to stare at the inert body crumpled on the asphalt a few feet behind him. |
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Two hours later, we watched through glass as her inert body was wheeled into the intensive care recovery. |
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Meanwhile, the intention is to turn whole command and control agencies into passive, inert organisms. |
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So is it just an unwillingness on the part of an inert legal community in this country that the jury system has not been adequately researched? |
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The difficulties with agents include conflicts of interest when the same agent acts for competing principals or is simply inert. |
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In the mid-1860s, he succeeded in mixing it with an inert absorbent material. |
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A nearly inert material, concrete is suitable as a medium for recycling waste or industrial by-products. |
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They would like to use their carborane acids to bind protons to atoms of the inert gas xenon. |
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Fluorine is so reactive that it forms compounds with the noble gases, which were thought to be chemically inert. |
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In this case, the pressure is applied by means of a hot inert gas in a pressure vessel. |
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If some of the components of this system chemically react with each other then the inert substance dispersing the reactants is the inert solvent. |
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Prior to Bartlett's preparation of the first xenon compound, the rare gases were widely referred to as the inert gases. |
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Nevertheless, he shrugged it off when the disturbing image of an inert Birdie recurred in his mind again. |
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But the same would be likely to apply to inert waste deposited at the County's exhausted minerals workings or landfill sites. |
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Such protection is not afforded the aquanaut, for he is exposed to high ambient pressures of inert gases over considerable periods of time. |
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Along with helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon, it is classed as an inert gas within group 0 of the periodic table. |
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A plasma monitor often consists of two panels, which are filled with an inert gas, such as xenon or neon. |
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When propelled by an avalanche of media-fueled fear, the inert indigent of the net slowly update their lapsed anti-virus software. |
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The reaction between the aldehyde and the organic amine or polyamine is usually conducted in the presence of an inert solvent. |
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Another theoretical advantage of RFA is that it denatures viral proteins without a plume and its by products are elementary molecules and low molecular weight inert gases. |
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Another man strode by with the inert body of a young child in his arms. |
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They stand before us as inert models of a species of social respectability that is as unbudgeable and dependable as the wood from which they seem to have been fashioned. |
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Batterlife claim that in Lithium Ion batteries the main cause of this deterioration is a build up of inert, uncharged particles between the electrodes. |
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Airborne CFCs, which were relatively inert near Earth's surface, were being decomposed by sunlight in the upper atmosphere, releasing free chlorine atoms. |
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Intramolecular forces in the chlorobenzene backbone of the polymer create a strong film that is chemically inert to acid, base, and ketone exposure. |
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A good example of a harmful nanoparticle is titanium dioxide, which has been used in toxicology for a long time and established as an inert substance. |
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Is the market an inert force to be manipulated and exploited, to deprive it of hard-earned cash? |
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Like so many, I am beyond fed up with an inert, intellectually lazy, nepotistic ALP that refuses to grasp the dangerous long term implications of the current government. |
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The less initiated often enjoy substantial reduction of anxiety neurosis from inert chemicals because they have both the faith and the desire for ataraxis. |
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It stands, therefore, inert on our shelves or lies vexedly thumbed on our tables, and it will continue so until we learn to use it as it was intended we should. |
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To prevent oxidation after bottling and before corking, he uses a blanket of inert gas, as do some winemakers and, like many winemakers, synthetic stoppers. |
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Phlegm is motionless, viscid, sticky, heavy, inert, cold, soft, and white. |
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Flux injection is a relatively new process in which fluxing compounds are introduced into the molten metal by a mechanical device using an inert gas carrier. |
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Mammals have very little yolk but have evolved from reptiles with telolecithal eggs and, thus, they retain features to cope with the problem of a large inert yolk mass. |
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Though the earth is inert soil, if you plant and nourish it properly, it explodes with a plethora of vegetation capable of sustaining ever-increasing amounts of life. |
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If the tank must be filled from the top, then the tank should be filled with an inert gas such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide to displace any oxygen. |
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Surrounded by inert goods, we felt hemmed in, pushed toward a lifestyle cul-de-sac. |
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Instead of upending the genre as Joe Millionaire did, the inert Harry mostly shows how much things have changed since then. |
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The inert material can be talc, whiting or fuller's earth available from your local hardware store while the solvent will vary based on the type of stain. |
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Furthermore, the rapid expansion of cold gases forced hot, oxygenated air from the waste pile and replaced it with chemically inert nitrogen and carbon dioxide. |
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Selecting either a halocarbon or inert gas, two types of clean agents, depends upon available space for suppression system tanks and venting capabilities. |
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The process comprises the step of first bringing a substrate to candescence in a reducing or inert atmosphere for the purpose of cleaning the filament. |
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The inert nature of the anodic coating provides excellent heat resistance. |
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Like other elements in Group 18, krypton is chemically inert. |
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Since argon is chemically inert, there is no tissue carbonization. |
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After lying inert for several minutes, Totmianina was taken to hospital with concussion before being discharged the next day with a shiner on her eye. |
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Disinfectant and hospital 8101 sterilant inert ingredients with bactericidal action, sporocidal tuberculocidal, virucidal, and pseudomonicida. |
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Locally produced inert waste for disposal is sent to landfill at the Beal Valley. |
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Although barium sulfate is an inert material, it rarely can cause severe complications, as described in this case. |
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Five years later Faraday, experimenting with exploding fuselike metal wires in an inert atmosphere, evaporated thin films. |
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How does he propose to stimulate the inert economy and create jobs? |
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These relatively inert materials simply collect within the biomass and can sometimes gradually become bioconcretions. |
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Aristotle's analysis of procreation describes an active, ensouling masculine element bringing life to an inert, passive female element. |
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Still, many British citizens, who had been members of the Labour Party, itself inert over the issue, turned to the Communist Party. |
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But another development goes even further by demolishing Newton's image of matter as inert lumps. |
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Typically the cathode is made from platinum or another inert metal when producing hydrogen for storage. |
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Filling a bulb with an inert gas such as argon or nitrogen retards the evaporation of the tungsten filament compared to operating it in a vacuum. |
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While inert gas reduces filament evaporation, it also conducts heat from the filament, thereby cooling the filament and reducing efficiency. |
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Most geologists believe it was composed primarily of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and other relatively inert gases, and was lacking in free oxygen. |
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This radical shift from a chemically inert to an oxidizing atmosphere caused an ecological crisis, sometimes called the oxygen catastrophe. |
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The result is a stronger contraction of the lead 6s orbital than is the case for the 6p orbital, making it rather inert in ionic compounds. |
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However, it is redox inert and thus can serve such a function only indirectly. |
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Molten metal must be kept in a vacuum or an inert atmosphere to avoid reaction with air. |
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An oil tanker's inert gas system is one of the most important parts of its design. |
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As a tank is pumped out, it is filled with inert gas and kept in this safe state until the next cargo is loaded. |
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Thus, as air replaces the inert gas, the concentration cannot rise to the lower flammable limit and is safe. |
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Purging is accomplished by pumping inert gas into the tank until hydrocarbons have been sufficiently expelled. |
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The inert gas buffer between fuel and oxygen atmospheres ensures they are never capable of ignition. |
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Water has a high heat of vaporization and is relatively inert, which makes it a good fire extinguishing fluid. |
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Similar to CFCs, SF6 is also an inert gas and is not affected by oceanic chemical or biological activities. |
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And his wife sat there, inert as a porcelain doll, her enormous eyes wide open and fixed on me in perfectly unswerving contemplation. |
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In the laboratory, anhydrous sodium sulfate is widely used as an inert drying agent, for removing traces of water from organic solutions. |
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It is also used in the pharmaceutical industry as an inert filler for tablets and other pharmaceuticals. |
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These improvements are in general in the form of a support made from an inert and thermally stable material such as silica, carbon or alumina. |
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The optional ampule filling unit can be configured to fill each ampule automatically with an inert gas or a precisely measured of liquid. |
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Designed for a high-purity electronic application, this vacuum-capable inert mixer includes a recirculation filter system. |
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Our main underweight is still in cash, which yields very little and is inert to both deflation and reflation risk. |
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Our findings suggested that even inert mineral fibers were not safe if the conditions of durability, clearance, and respirability are satisfied. |
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The ballonet is a zero-porosity internal membrane filled with the inert gas helium. |
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The application is to allow the import of inert materials in order to raise the existing ground level at the former Dickies' Boatyard. |
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And liker all noble gases, it's chemically inert, or doesn't combine with any other elements except in extreme cases. |
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It is nontoxic, nonallergenic, chemically inert, and recyclable with a relatively low melting point. |
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All she needs to show is that if moral facts are causally inert, then noncausal moral knowledge would not amount to a massive coincidence. |
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Muscle and fat content, among a great many other factors, influence the speed of off-gassing inert gas from the body's tissues. |
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Oxygen removal can be accomplished by means of chemical oxygen scavengers, vacuum deaeration, or sparging with an inert gas. |
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With proper deoxygenation, purging with inert gas was not required through the reaction medium during polymerization. |
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Denitrification is a microbial-mediated release of inert dinitrogen gas and potentially nitrogen oxides including nitrous oxide. |
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Vitamin D obtained from sun exposure, food, and supplements is biologically inert and must undergo two hydroxylations in the body for activation. |
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The closed system protects the sample from external light and allows purging with an inert gas. |
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The material is then cooled to room temperature under an inert gas, and any oxidized surface material removed. |
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It is compatible with all inert gases and has internal filtration and relief valves. |
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All production rates from the Rodessa formation are gross production rates, prior to reduction for inert gases of approximately 30 percent. |
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But worse than dense inert metal explosive, white phosphorous, and flechette darts? |
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Yet in the face of the mutely expressive, itchily inert objects themselves, Fer's scrupulously tentative ruminations leave me in doubt. |
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Commercial experience suggests that the flotation of inclusions is increased by adding small amounts of chlorine, freon or sulfur hexafluoride to the inert purge gas. |
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Fluidized beds can be used to form powders by grinding using small inert abrasive particles, but it is difficult to produce nanopowders in sufficient quantity to be practical. |
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In 1962, Bartlett, then professor of chemistry at UBC, concocted a simple experiment that confirmed his suspicion that inert gases were chemically able to react. |
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Xenon, an inert gas, exhibits unusual behavior near its critical point, at which it turns into a milky fluid with properties between those of a liquid and a gas. |
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A mixture of inert gas, such as argon or krypton, and a reactive gas, such as methane, ethane, or ethyne with a hydrogen-nitrogen mixture, is used in the sputtering process. |
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At the other end of the line is a video projector that transmits their various characteristics, literally filling up and animating what would otherwise be a mute, inert lump. |
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Two surgeons would have removed the damaged section of Houllier's aorta and replaced it with a graft, made of an inert man-made material called Dacron. |
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The extremely tight complexes formed by the interaction of spermatozoal DNA with proteins generate highly stable and transcriptionally inert chromatin. |
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In other words, nitrogen sparges the water to remove any dissolved oxygen and C02, and humid air in the head space is replaced by pure, inert nitrogen. |
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Next-Tec's Poly-Melt device takes plastic waste and puts it through a process that reduces its volume by turning it into inert plastic briquettes. |
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The system has been designed to simultaneously heat and stir up to 6 x 5 mL, 10 mL, 25 mL, 50 mL, 170 mL or 250 mL round-bottomed flasks under inert gas and reflux. |
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Lactide is shipped as an inert flake in dry bulk containers. |
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The team engineered the molecules to be either reactive or inert at the tip of each arm, and then temporarily capped the reactive tips with bromine atoms. |
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Boyle trapped an inert gas in the closed end of the test tube with a column of mercury, thereby making the number of particles and the temperature constant. |
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Because CFCs are inert, their concentration in the ocean interior reflects simply the convolution of their atmospheric time evolution and ocean circulation and mixing. |
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As inert gas is introduced into a mixture of hydrocarbon vapors and air, it increases the lower flammable limit or lowest concentration at which the vapors can be ignited. |
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This layer makes bulk lead effectively chemically inert in the air. |
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The design has a single casing of tubing strings enclosed and filled with an inert gas to allow for leak monitoring, corrosion prevention and heat transfer. |
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In 1913, Irving Langmuir found that filling a lamp with inert gas instead of a vacuum resulted in twice the luminous efficacy and reduction of bulb blackening. |
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The filament, heated by passing an electric current through it, is protected from oxidation with a glass or quartz bulb that is filled with inert gas or evacuated. |
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If, however, the gas is to be burnt on site, oxygen is desirable to assist the combustion, and so both electrodes would be made from inert metals. |
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Inert vats have no effect on the taste of Chablis and allow the wine to express the terroir of a particular cru, without any external influence. |
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Inert squash head ammunition would also be useful for punching holes in walls with minimal collateral damage. |
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Inert gases are no longer necessary, reducing the running cost typically associated with firing a dewax oven. |
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Itv-17 For Bomb 120 Mm Mortar Inert, Fuzed A, Plugged A To Drg. |
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Inert dusts such as diatomaceous earth, kaolin, sodium carbonate, calcium carbonate, and volcanic ash are well known for their insecticidal properties. |
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Inert particulate matter can be disturbed and entrained into the smoke. |
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