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  • adjective Not reacted

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Examples

  • Depending on the fuel cell system design, some fuel might leave the system unreacted, constituting an additional loss.

    Green group questions economic sense of hydrogen buses « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

  • Assuming that most of the "thermite" would have burned when set off, and only a fraction remained unreacted, then the amount of 0.1% of the total dust is astounding.

    Was it Nanotech-Thermite or Phasers that took down the WTC? 2009

  • The paper ends with this sentence: “Based on these observations, we conclude that the red layer of the red/gray chips we have discovered in the WTC dust is active, unreacted thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology, and is a highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material.”

    Reviewing Project Censored's Latest Top 25 Censored Stories 2009

  • One particularly unusual finding in this research article was that the percentage of "red/gray chips" of supposedly "unreacted thermite" amounted to approximately 0.1% of the total mass of the collected dust.

    Was it Nanotech-Thermite or Phasers that took down the WTC? 2009

  • The technology may be immature -- e.g. the fuel (purity) grade is barely good for an explosion, but far from the optimum energy of a successful test (the consequence of this case would be dreadful for environmentalist, as a lot of unreacted nuke materials might have been left in the tunnel)

    North Korea Test not really a success Sun Bin 2006

  • The technology may be immature -- e.g. the fuel (purity) grade is barely good for an explosion, but far from the optimum energy of a successful test (the consequence of this case would be dreadful for environmentalist, as a lot of unreacted nuke materials might have been left in the tunnel)

    Archive 2006-10-01 Sun Bin 2006

  • The powdery residue still contains about 2% of unreacted aluminium phosphide (or 0.2% in the case of magnesium phosphide) and must be collected after fumigation.

    9. Pest control using fumigants 1996

  • · Water reacts on the surface of the cement grains and diffuses inwards to reach unreacted cement.

    Chapter 4 1988

  • After each step the desired product must be separated from by-products and unreacted starting material and this takes time and involves loss of the product.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1984 - Presentation Speech 1984

  • After each step the product must be separated from biproducts and unreacted starting material and loss of product is inevitable during such separation.

    Press Release: The 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1984

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