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Bromine even reacts with relatively inert elements such as platinum and palladium.
Precious metals are elements that are rare in the Earth's crust, are attractive to look at, and are chemically quite inert.
Yesterday the European adventurers rode their luck and came away with a draw which their largely inert performance barely deserved.
This is best done by storing in an inert gas chamber or in a vacuum chamber.
Tungsten arc welding, using inert shielding gases, is hardly a new process.
Initially, I guessed and told her they might package the salad in an inert or nonoxygen atmosphere of nitrogen or maybe argon.
There is surprisingly little oxidation of the image, and the institute will be keeping it in a box filled with inert argon gas.
By surrounding hot metals with inert argon, the metals are protected from potential oxidation by oxygen in the air.
The products that on paper seemed to be bombproof and virtually inert turned out to be part of a system that propagates mold, mildew, and rot.
Without ascriptions of meaning, formal and analytical knowledge is inert, unactualised, imperceptible.
Normally it is said that gold has no biochemical purpose, because it is chemically inert.
An inert gas then propels the liquid through an ultrasonic nozzle that atomizes it.
The stage is lusterless, the direction inert, the action scrappy, and every invitation for theatrical excitement turned aside.
To these traditional ingredients they add inert temperature-controlled fermentation and maturation in new oak, mainly French.
It should be emphasized that not all synonymous changes may be selectionally inert.
Mars's atmosphere is completely inert, no chemical reactions could go on there.
The term fluxing also includes the treatment of nonferrous melts by inert or reactive gases to remove solid or gaseous impurities.
The end point of decomposition is a largely inert organic material called humus.
I'm less impressed with the recent work, which is mostly a stony croak over monotonal and mostly inert melodies, but it's not all bad.
The nitrogen we breathe is chemically inert and takes no part in the chemical or metabolic reactions in the body.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He looked down at their inert, but titanically powerful enemy whose baleful glow seemed even now to be burning their funeral pyre.
The only way the associated life of such a community can be radically improved is by the leavening of the inert popular mass.
Her sapphirine eyes were shining, her hands lay inert in her lap, her lips quivered softly.
And when bending over that inert face I felt that there was no longer any breath!
An atom of any kind is not the inert thing it has been supposed to be, for it can do something.
And it is these inert half-willed people who will obstruct the disentanglement of the settlement from diplomatic hands.
The dying woman, relieved by her first emesis, now lay inert, with closed eyes.
Briefly Arcot and Wade discussed the unusual atmosphere, finally deciding that the inert gas was argon.
The volume of flame, however, is increased by inert gas, and there is a proportionate diminution of the heating effect.
And he failed to curb his own immoderate thirst, but overindulged until, inert in the medicine lodge, he slept as heavily as they.
But inert and inadequate in muscular action, it is negative in intellection.
He crashed to the floor plates an inert heap and the Earth man recovered the pinch bar.
The supernaturalist on the other hand reverses the order, and in him the passions are active and the intellect inert.
It is, I should hope, the deadest and most utterly inert little town in the British dominions.
The Kid and the bearcat were in view again, no longer nonchalantly inert, but in animated action.
The ancient Democritic or atomical physiology endows inert matter with a motive power.
In his youth One Eye had once sniffed too near a similar, apparently inert ball of quills, and had the tail flick out suddenly in his face.
Her big eyes stared wide open, inert and dark against the snowy whiteness of the linen.
The chauffeur got down, shook his fare by the arm, and the arm was inert.
They sat or lay inert, watching the safari pass, their eyes apathetic.
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