Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:Glass is the material of choice for laboratory applications due to its inertness compared with metals or plastics . Sentence 2:However , plastic funnels made of nonreactive polyethylene are used for transferring aqueous solutions .
however