gainless

gainless

(ˈɡeɪnləs)
adj
providing no gain; unprofitable
ˈgainlessness n
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1 reveals that the experimental effort to prepare the NBR/CNT composites via masterbatch process is gainless, because the percolation threshold of the NBR/CCB composites prepared by direct melt blending is only slightly higher than that of the NBR/CNT composites.
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It is inaccurate to claim that "price-making markets [were] the exceptional occurrence" (Neale 1957) for the eastern Mediterranean world of the first-century and to identify ancient Palestine as a "gainless and marketless economy" (Hejeebu and McCloskey 1999).
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