unreactive

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"If we then offer a certain molecule, for example nitrogen, which is normally unreactive and doesn't bind, the beast is satisfied with it because it has no other choice," he says.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2023

Atmospheric nitrogen consists of N2 molecules, which are very unreactive due to the strong nitrogen-nitrogen triple bond.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

It is also reasonably cheap, unreactive and easy to purify.

From Economist • Jan. 11, 2018

UK-based Econic Technologies has invented a way of encouraging CO2 - a typically unreactive gas - to react with the petrochemical raw materials used in the making of many plastics.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2017

The trouble is that CO2 is a very stable, unreactive molecule.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 10, 2015