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What does unreactive mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chemistry) Not reactive; relatively inert.
  2. (psychology) That does not respond to a stimulation.
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Some materials commonly used as unreactive anodes are platinum and graphite.
Foodstuffs that are oxidized by molecular oxygen during respiration are quite unreactive with oxygen before ingestion.
An atom with this stable set of electrons is a very unreactive species.
Nonmetals with eight valence electrons are chemically unreactive.
Both SO4 and NO3 are largely unreactive in the mineral soils and therefore play a dominant role in controlling cation mobility.
Cooling molten silica below the melting point results in fused silica, a rigid, transparent substance, chemically unreactive to the vast majority of substances.

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