Sentence examples for principal reaction from inspiring English sources

She's both funny and frightening and her principal reaction to Billy's death is to remark: "I'm sure he had his reasons", a jokey reference to Renoir's explanation for all human behaviour in La Règle du jeu.

Mr. Antonov, who did not serve in Dresden but claims to have remained close to Mr. Putin through the 1980's, said Mr. Putin's principal reaction to East Germany's collapse was not ideological.

The principal reaction of quaternary ammonium compounds is the Hofmann degradation, which takes place when the hydroxides are strongly heated, generating a tertiary amine; the least-substituted alkyl group is lost as an alkene.

"The principal reaction to the experience of Civil War seems to have been less to try to enroll the new science to a specific viewpoint than to aspire to its 'establishment' as a worthwhile step in itself," Michael Hunter wrote in "Establishing the New Science," his 1989 history of the Royal Society.

While the 1966 World Cup has been mythologised in England as the high point of the nation's sporting achievement, a rapturously received feast of football and organisational and technical firsts – the first World Cup broadcast in colour, the first mascot – in other countries and in one continent in particular the principal reaction was outrage.

Figure 1 Principal reaction products.

These two examples illustrate two principal reactions that occur during crystallization of common magmas, one discontinuous (the olivine-liquid-pyroxene reaction) and the other continuous (the plagioclase-liquid reaction).

For example, at a pH of less than 8, the principal reactions and their relative speed are as follows:CO2 + H2O ⇌ H2CO3 (slow) H2CO3 + OH− ⇌ HCO3− + H2O (fast) Above pH 10 the following reactions are important:CO2 + OH− ⇌ HCO3− (slow) HCO3− + OH− ⇌ CO32− + H2O (fast) Between pH values of 8 and 10, all the above equilibrium reactions are significant.

The principal reactions contributing to the formation of H2, O2 and H2O2 were indicated.

The principal reactions take place on the feed stage of the column without packing.

The reaction rates are generally smaller on p-type InP and the reaction speed is much slower but the principal reactions are the same.