noun
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A substance that does not react chemically.
verb
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To fill with an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion.
adjective
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Unable to move or act; inanimate.
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In chemistry, not readily reacting with other elements or compounds.
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Having no therapeutic action.
Examples of inert in a Sentence
He opened the back door of the van and motioned Betsy inside as Molly lay inert on the ground.
The acid is inert, but picro-podophyllin is the active principle.
Some are dense and will sit inert on the bottom.
Whereas the soil used to be looked upon solely as a dead, inert material containing certain chemical substances which serve as food constituents.
At every stage the degree of tension requisite for existence is slackened, and the resulting element approaches more and more to " inert " matter.
John sat inert at Rouen, pretending to take his misfortunes lightly, and boasting that what was easily lost could be as easily won back.
Left to himself, Louis might have been too inert for resistance.
When placed in such a position the scorpion faints and becomes inert.
Any remaining matter is composted to reduce its bulk and make it biologically inert.
Christ have mercy For the times we could have turned love into a reality but remained inert... .
It is tasteless, colourless and odourless gas, which is exceedingly stable and inert.
Old turpentine and French oil of turpentine are antidotes to phosphorus, forming turpentine-phosphoric acid, which is inert.
Like H 2 O, CO 2 is a chemically inert molecule.
Such entities would seem to be causally inert, some philosophers will say.
Urea is a relatively inert substance compared with ammonia.
Now many people say that if you do this you will become inert.
Sephar says " It seems inert for the moment, Sir.
Sulfur hexafluoride is an inert, innocuous gas, poorly soluble in aqueous solutions.
These refills are made from inert, clear polypropylene and are safe and suitable for long-term archival storage of documents.
The first was marked with the inert tracer SF 6.
Before the discovery, sleep was believed to be a continuous and generally inert state.
The crystals are usually aluminum oxide (due to the inert and oil absorbing qualities), although other substances can be used.
This means when applied they simply do the job and then degrade into harmless, inert compounds.
On the degeneration of the polypide, its nutritive material is apparently absorbed for the benefit of the zooid, while the pig mented substances assume a spheroidal form, which either remains as an inert "brown body" in the body-cavity or is discharged to the exterior by the alimentary canal of the new polypide.
It becomes less when the "oxyhydrogen" is mixed with excess of one or the other of the two reacting gases, or an inert gas such as nitrogen, because in any such case the same amount of heat spreads over a larger quantity of matter.
With reference to all such further refinements of theory, it is to be borne in mind that the perfect fluid of hydrodynamic analysis is not a merely passive inert plenum; it is also a continuum with the property that no finite internal slip or discontinuity of motion can ever arise in it through any kind of disturbance; and this property must be postulated, as it cannot be explained.
Its adherents feel themselves to be the isolated, the few, the free and the enlightened, as opposed to the sluggish and inert masses of mankind degraded into matter, or the initiated as opposed to the uninitiated, the Gnostics as opposed to the " Hylici " (Wiwi); at most in the later and more moderate schools a middle place was given to the adherents of the Church as Psychici (1/vXtKoi).
In 1902, in an "attempt at a chemical conception of the ether," he put forward the hypothesis that there are in existence two elements of smaller atomic weight than hydrogen, and that the lighter of these is a chemically inert, exceedingly mobile, all-penetrating and all-pervading gas, which constitutes the aether.
It is the idea of tension or tonicity as the essential attribute of body, in contradistinction to passive inert matter, which is distinctively Stoic. The Epicureans leave unexplained the primary constitution and first movements of their atoms or elemental solids; chance or declination may account for them.
Jungfleisch has obtained it by carrying out the combustion with oxygen under reduced pressure, or diluted with an inert gas.
This is achieved by using a plasma arc, where energy is released by an electrical discharge in an inert atmosphere.
Rayleigh is perhaps most famous for his discovery the inert gas argon in 1895, work which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1904.
For example, aluminum bronzes are used very successfully for inert gas fans in oil tankers.
If it melts and bubbles then it is the inert filler which is used to make the weight of a real shell for tests.
Whit to congressional mirror was placed inert gases in.
Temperature resistant, inert base oils and a new type of thickener are blended to form a soft, white lubricating grease.
A microchip is a tiny, totally inert electronic transponder about the size of a grain of rice.
In the occupied area the whole of heavy industry lay inert because of passive resistance.
I found her inert, her head hanging down, a thin trickle of blood running from the corner of her mouth.
The inserts were to be welded in using a tungsten inert gas technique.
A technique has been available for assessing cerebral blood flow on CT machines using the inert gas xenon since the 1970s.
Hillebrand, who had noticed, in examining the mineral uraninite, that an inert gas was evolved when the mineral was decomposed with acid.
In former days this was the prevalent poplar in Britain, and the timber was employed for the purposes to which that of other species is applied, but has been superseded by P. monilifera and its varieties; it probably furnished the poplar wood of the Romans, which, from its lightness and soft tough grain, was in esteem for shield-making; in continental Europe it is still in some request; the bark, in Russia, is used for tanning leather, while in Kamchatka it is sometimes ground up and mixed with meal; the gum secreted by the buds was employed by the old herbalists for various medicinal purposes, but is probably nearly inert; the cotton-like down of the seed has been converted into a kind of vegetable felt, and has also been used in paper-making.
Tall planting round the back and sides of the tank, together with an inert substrate will limit the skittish behavior of the fish.
A technique has been available for assessing cerebral blood flow on CT machines using the inert gas Xenon since the 1970s.
Three groups were given a different amount of cinnamon each and three groups received placebo pills (inert substances indistinguishable from the cinnamon capsules).
While the EPA requires us to label these with proper precautions, the natural actives will degrade very quickly into harmless inert compounds.
Practically any vessel may serve as a receiver - test tube, flask, beaker, &c. If noxious vapours come over, it is necessary to have an air-tight connexion between the condenser and receiver, and to pro vide the latter with an outlet tube leading to an absorption column or other contrivance in which the vapours are taken up. If the substances operated upon decompose when heated in air, as, for example, the zinc alkyls which inflame, the air within the apparatus is replaced by some inert gas, e.g.
Sense experience is thus the constant action upon our minds of supreme active intellect, and is not the consequence of dead inert matter.
In order to exert force, or at all events that force of reciprocal pressure which we best understand, and on which, in impact, the third law of motion was founded, there are always at least two bodies, enduring, triply extended, mobile, each inert, mutually impenetrable or resistent, different yet similar; and in order to have produced any effect but equilibrium, some bodies must at some time have differed either in mass or in velocity, otherwise forces would only have neutralized one another.