inertness

They do not linger on the cold inertness of the flesh.

Clearly, the inertness of this place affected even speech.

He is frustrated by the inertness of Satan and now wants an aggressive hell.

For example, sexual inertness and frigidity are praised as virtues.

Chemical inertness - The sand must not react with the metal being cast.

Platinum is chosen also because of its chemical inertness.

In Good's own words, "it may be that the quest for universal biological inertness is futile."

Some even make a pretence of justifying their inertness.

Disadvantages can be inertness (through co-ordination) and loss of interaction.

From his inertness and his light breathing she could tell that Dmitri was asleep.

Other selection criteria include the inertness of the thermocouple material, and whether it is magnetic or not.

But thezzrou might have been a hockey puck for its inertness.

Pitt knew he had crossed over the threshold from physical sensibility to the inertness of twilight sleep.

Therefore, to be effective, a good diffusion barrier requires inertness with respect to adjacent materials.

They alone moved through the vast inertness.

Their moral zeal is corroborated by a certain visual inertness and even drabness.

It is little wonder that most men find the free woman, in her inertness, her ignorance and arrogance, boring.

Glass is the material of choice for laboratory applications due to its inertness compared with metals or plastics.

Due to its inertness, it is used in many medical applications and in medical implants.

Its very inertness is why the first brain researchers named their new science after the neuron instead of its insulation.

The slave, of course, is not permitted the ignorance, inertness and mediocrity of the free woman.

I had not had an opportunity to prepare myself for the touch, to perhaps steel myself into inertness.

Fluorine is a good electron-withdrawing group in terms of synthetic accessibility and biological inertness.

This structural group is characterized by chemical inertness and a large molecular volume which makes them useful in a number of applications.

The inertness and ability to be attractively colored makes titanium a popular metal for use in body piercing.