But because the electrodes are physically separated from one another their chemical constituents can react only by remote control.

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In Ford's new systems, for example, apps are physically separated from vehicle critical devices - making it, it says, impossible to hack between the two.

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Cabinda is physically separated from the rest of the country by a strip of the DR Congo and has a northern border with the Republic of Congo.

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Modern business systems make it relatively easy for us to provide the right information to the right people at the right time, even when organizations are physically separated.

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By chance his brother, a teacher in Alaska, put him in touch with a small law firm that wanted help representing fishers in Cook Inlet, a body of water physically separated from the spill by the Kenai Peninsula.

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Novices love the path because it is easily accessible, undemanding physically and totally separated from car traffic.

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