unreactive
Example Sentences
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It relies on marking sugars with a small, biologically unreactive chemical group that can slip undetected past the enzymes that attach glycans to proteins.
From Nature
But the development of such methods is by no means easy, because CO2 is a stable and relatively unreactive molecule.
From Nature
It bonds with itself in pairs as N2, an unreactive molecule that comprises most of the gas we breathe.
From Scientific American
The authors report that, when used in combination with silver fluoride, this carbonate traps the typically highly unreactive CF3-containing intermediate to form a compound called a carbamoyl fluoride.
From Nature
The result shows this unlikely molecule—involving typically unreactive helium—can be created in space.
From Science Magazine
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