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What is the noun for inert?

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inertness
  1. Lack of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
  2. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
  3. (chemistry) Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Yet, simultaneously, he derided himself for the inertness of his imagination.”
      “Their unique chemical structure gives them a high temperature stability and general inertness.”
      “Thus, properties such as malleability, a high degree of hardness, poor cleavage, and chemical inertness are favorable.”
inertia
  1. (physics) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
  2. (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
  3. (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The resistance of the atmosphere to the motion of the rifle ball in its curved path is met by the inertia of the ball.”
      “The limitations of heterodoxy such as those I have described above go some way towards accounting for inertia and stasis.”
      “But whatever the smart individuals inside these organizations might think, bureaucratic inertia is killing those golden-egg geese.”
inertion
inerting
  1. The filling of a fuel tank with an inert gas to reduce the risk of explosion.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In other words, de-icing in winter would be replaced by inerting in the summer.”
inertitude
  1. (dated) inertness; inertia
inert
  1. (chemistry) A substance that does not react chemically.
inertnesses
inertiae
inertias
inerts
  1. plural of inert
  2. Examples:
    1. “They might have pulled some inerts out, some emulsifiers, whatever, but basically the product is the same.”
      “Number two, we would like the disclosure of inerts, so we really know what we're being exposed to.”
      “For the waste management on this construction site, a sorting in 3 categories was held: inerts, common waste in mixture and special in mixture.”
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