be inert
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They theorized that sodium's core electrons, thought to be inert, would interact with each other and the outer valence electrons when under extreme pressure.
From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2023
The grenade was found to be inert and, according to its owner, was bought at an air show.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2023
Prof Stride also says that, if they're proven to be inert, shortened CNTs may provide an "effective mechanism for drug delivery to the inner cell region".
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2016
To Joseph, it makes as much sense for the dead to appear as spirits glowing in midair as for them to be inert and terminated.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2016
Buffon, however, and other naturalists, contended that these were not animalcules, but organic particles; and Linnæus imagined them to be inert molecules, thrown into agitation by the warmth of the fluid.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
