Like certain other resins, scammony is inert until it has passed from the stomach into the duodenum, where it meets the bile, a chemical reaction occurring between it and the taurocholate and glycocholate of sodium, whereby it is converted into a powerful purgative.

In electrowinning, a current is passed from an inert anode through a liquid leach solution containing the metal so that the metal is extracted as it is deposited in an electroplating process onto the cathode.

Maximilian's power was very limited ; it was inability rather than unwillingness that prevented him from yielding to the entreaties of Pope Pius V to join in an attack on the Turks both before and after the victory of Lepanto in 1571 ; and he remained inert while the authority of the empire in north-eastern Europe was threatened.

Oxygen deficient atmospheres are the basis for many occurrences of single and multiple deaths ; the deceased will be found lying prone on the bottom of a tank, and then the observer will rush in to rescue them, and succumb to the same effect, hence the need to vent or purge the inert gases from all tanks before entry.

Mildly pyrophoric solids ( such as lithium aluminium hydride and sodium hydride ) can be handled in the air for brief periods of time, but the containers must be flushed with inert gas before storage.

In the 1995 movie Die Hard with a Vengeance, the terrorists use timer and otherwise activated binary explosive bombs, where two inert fluid, a white and a red coloured, right before detonation mixed by the bombs ' mechanism creating a highly explosive mixture.

Satisfied that the Austrians were temporarily inert, Bonaparte harried Michelangelo Colli's Piedmontese at Ceva and San Michele Mondovi before whipping them at the Battle of Mondovì.

If the mixed paste is too thin or lacks body before it sets, a filler ( such as a wax ) or an inert powder ( such as kaolin, talc, or diatomaceous earth ) may be added to one or both of the original pastes.

The mixed gas must be analysed before use, as an inaccurate assumption of composition can lead to problems of hypoxia or oxygen toxicity in the case of the oxygen analysis, and decompression sickness if the inert gas components differ from the planned composition.

To avoid oxygen toxicity and narcosis, the diver needs to plan the required mix to be blended and to check the proportions of oxygen and inert gases in the blended mix before diving.

After the freeze-drying process is complete, the vacuum is usually broken with an inert gas, such as nitrogen, before the material is sealed.

Liquids drawn up into a gas syringes can optionally be sparged with inert gas before dispensing into a reaction vessel such as a Schlenk flask.

The space above the chemical may be filled with an inert gas before sealing.

Their inert forms would then glow an unearthly green before mutating into horrible rampaging creatures.

According to Locke, a thing's primary qualities, such as its extension, shape, motion, solidity, and number, exist unperceived, apart from any perceiver's mind, in an inert, senseless substance called matter.

And his mind also is divided rather than united ; he gains no insight from this event, neither of himself nor of that other Addison Doug who can no longer reason or problem-solve, but can only lie there inert and in darkness.

Dr. Louis Lalaurie examined the inert form of the slave on the parquet dance floor and pronounced him dead.

Jesus' inert body would be passive, his eyes closed.

Still the guards did not move, but stood inert, aloof from the slow-scrambling man.

In the first trial an inert substance was disseminated from a boat travelling some ten miles off shore under appropriately selected meteorological conditions.

Argon is mostly used as an inert shielding gas in welding and other high-temperature industrial processes where ordinarily non-reactive substances become reactive ; for example, an argon atmosphere is used in graphite electric furnaces to prevent the graphite from burning.

Argon is chemically inert under most conditions and forms no confirmed stable compounds at room temperature.

Simple alcohols, in particular, ethanol and methanol, possess denaturing and inert rendering properties, leading to their use as anti-microbial agents in medicine, pharmacy, and industry.

The abzyme does more than bind to the site, it actually destroys the site, rendering HIV inert, and then can attach to other viruses.

* Dummy: Ammunition with an inert warhead, inert primer, and no propellant ; used for training or display.

The volatile hydride generated by the reaction that occurs is swept into the atomization chamber by an inert gas, where it undergoes decomposition.

The mercury, is then swept into a long-pass absorption tube by bubbling a stream of inert gas through the reaction mixture.

Electrodeless discharge lamps ( EDL ) contain a small quantity of the analyte as a metal or a salt in a quartz bulb together with an inert gas, typically argon, at low pressure.

Reactions with chalcogens are highly exothermic ( release energy ); the reaction with oxygen or air occurs at room temperature, and therefore barium is stored under oil or inert gas atmosphere.

The " inert " or noble chemical elements ( helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon ) are composed of lone atoms as their smallest discrete unit, but the other isolated chemical elements consist of either molecules or networks of atoms bonded to each other in some way.

Large accumulations of coal, which have remained inert for hundreds of millions of years in the absence of oxygen, may spontaneously combust when exposed to air, for example in coal mine waste tips.

All but a few of the most inert elements, such as noble gases and noble metals, are usually found on Earth in chemically combined form, as chemical compounds.

Similarly, it must be handled under inert atmosphere such as argon.

Co-composting is a technique that combines solid waste with de-watered biosolids, although difficulties controlling inert and plastics contamination from municipal solid waste makes this approach less attractive.

However, instead of using a stationary phase of paper, it involves a stationary phase of a thin layer of adsorbent like silica gel, alumina, or cellulose on a flat, inert substrate.

Pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of materials in an inert atmosphere or a vacuum.

According to E. K. Hunt, classical liberals made four assumptions about human nature: People were " egoistic, coldly calculating, essentially inert and atomistic ".

If there were no opportunity to increase pleasure or reduce pain, they would become inert.

He would be remembered as an awkward figure on the artistic landscape and rowdy days while being fully committed to an art form that searched for truthfulness while the caravan of the mainstream masses pass us by.

As a boy his strong desires led his parents to place him, after some preliminary teaching from a passing Italian artist, in a free school of art directed by M. Constantin, a landscape painter of some reputation.

One of the most potent aspects of the system is " Town Creation " where the moral landscape of the town is laid out in the form of characters, their desires, and what they've done to each other.