inert

IPA: ɪnˈɝt

Examples of "inert" in Sentences

Potential intelligence, like potential, can remain inert forever.
Yet Shield limps out of the gate, inert from the first frame and devoid of suspense.
If you took away just one proton, you would have flourine, a gas which, far from being inert, is highly reactive and dangerous.
After a long time, Secotan, who had lain inert where he had been thrown into the boat, got to his knees and took up the second paddle.
A reaction induced on the laboratory bench may, like yeast in inert dough, leaven the whole of mankind, lightening and lifting it to heights undreamed of by its ancestors.
Merck said small pieces of the shrink wrap, which it called an "inert carbon material," can stick to the inside of product vials and turn brown during the sterilization process.
As a chemical kineticist and photochemist, I knew that such a molecule could not remain inert in the atmosphere forever, if only because solar photochemistry at high altitudes would break it down.
And what we know as inert matter, this is only the result of death in individuals, it is the dead bodies of individuals decomposed and resmelted between the hammer and anvil, fire and sand of the sun and the moon.
a certain form of exertion and action, -- I shall grant, of course, that nothing whatever that exists is in that sense inert; but I shall affirm that you use the word inert in quite a different sense from the usual one.