Sentence examples for instead of inert from inspiring English sources

What might he do with a script in which the protagonists are rounded humans who meaningfully interact with each other, instead of inert pawns sacrificed to a woozy stream of WTF?

A new approach is proposed allowing to characterize the hydrodynamic regime in the presence of chemical reactions, through small pulse-response experiments using a reacting component as a tracer instead of inert components which are used in the traditional Danckwerts-type experiment.

Expandable graphite was used instead of an inert gas to "foam" the pitch.

From the instantaneous tracer concentration fields, the method proposed allows one to easily calculate the instantaneous supersaturation fields, which would be obtained in the same mixing device with reagents instead of an inert tracer solution and pure solvent.

Thus, incorporation of a piperazine moiety instead of an inert alkanedioxy linker alone significantly enhances the DNA binding ability, and the analogous dimer 4 that lacks a piperazine moiety in the linker spacer elevates melting by only 15.1 °C under identical experimental conditions.

Alternatively, an optimal response ex vivo may require re-stimulation with a major histocompatibility complex-presented antigen by using infected cells instead of an inert split antigen.

Figuring TV as a communal activity can reduce some of its materialistic overtones as you interact with your fellow viewers instead of sitting inert and allowing yourself to be bombarded by endless ads.

Instead of squinting at inert specimens under his lens, he would try to leap into the life of the clinic upstairs – from the microscopic world that he knew so well into the magnified real world of patients and illnesses.

A purposely designed system of MOX connected to solid phase microextraction (SPME) has been developed that makes it possible for mixtures of air/inert gas to reach the sensor chamber instead of the pure inert gas.

The difference is that instead of using an inert homogeneous or heterogeneous shell material, a reasonable concentration of lanthanide dopants (generally the sensitizer) is introduced to the shell layer.

More recently, Golovchenko et al. have used frozen H2O resists to pattern features at the nanometer scale.[ 18– 20] But water has been shown to cause degradation processes in OLEDs.[ 21], [ 22] Instead, we consider the application of inert, frozen carbon dioxide (CO2) to the lithography of OLEDs.