inappreciable

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An influence goes abroad, and seems to be propagated through the atmosphere, traversing whole continents, and crossing wide oceans, powerful and deadly in its effects, yet inappreciable by the most delicate mechanical or chemical tests.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

Melloni showed that for a distance of 18 or 20 feet the absorption of obscure rays by the atmosphere was absolutely inappreciable.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

But if the natural changes in the Yellowstone appeared inappreciable, the artificial, the evolutionary changes were very striking.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

Alike to those who seem to be above it as to those who are evidently below, such work must remain always inappreciable and inexplicable.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

In mammals the ilium is directed forward, and even in the Cape ant-eater Orycteropus there is only an inappreciable production of the bone backward behind the acetabulum.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.