As chloride ion adsorption on the passive film/electrolyte interface and their penetration through the film are the main reasons for passivity breakdown, their mechanisms need to be assessed and understood.
One reason for this passivity is protective regulation that has lured these rating agencies into complacency.
Egypt may be chaotic, but it is often joyfully so.However, there are also less attractive reasons for public passivity.
There are economic, institutional and psychological reasons for this passivity, but the central bank's immobility is one main reason why Germany seems set to follow in Japan's footsteps.
The incorporation of Y2O3 in the passive film was given as the reason for the enhanced passivity properties of Mg Y ribbons.
One reason for the employers' passivity in paying health care bills may be that they know, or should know, that the fringe benefits they purchase for their employees ultimately come out of the employees' total pay package.
A major reason for this external passivity is that the plutocrats and oligarchs have signaled that it is futile to even try to make a challenge or a ruckus.
There is always an excuse for passivity, a reason not to care or confront.
When a Japanese prime minister scolds you for passivity, you know you're practically a zombie.
Writers in the 1960s, most famously Rolf Hochhuth in his 1963 play "The Representative", condemned Pius XII for passivity and pusillanimity.
