uncombined

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Phosphorus is the only member of its group that does not occur in the uncombined state in nature; it exists in many allotropic forms.

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Most of the representative metals do not occur naturally in an uncombined state because they readily react with water and oxygen in the air.

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The properties of combined elements are different from those in the free, or uncombined, state.

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But viscose is a complex product and essentially variable, through its pronounced tendency to progressive decomposition with reversion of the cellulose to its insoluble and uncombined condition.

From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by Cross, C. F.

A few imbecile and uncombined plots—in every instance detected before they broke out into action, and which perhaps if undetected would never have broken into action.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.