Some unreactive metals react only very slowly, such as copper and lead.
Nonmetals with eight valence electrons are chemically unreactive.
Cooling molten silica below the melting point results in fused silica, a rigid, transparent substance, chemically unreactive to the vast majority of substances.
John Hartwig and his team at Yale University meanwhile have found a simple way to add a functional group using borane reagents and a rhodium complex catalyst to the commonly unreactive alkanes at a fairly mild 150 Celsius.
The most dense gas known, radon is colorless and chemically unreactive.
Definition of unreactive in US English:
unreactive
adjectiveˌənrēˈaktiv
Having little tendency to react chemically.
不易起化学反应的；惰性的
Example sentencesExamples
Cooling molten silica below the melting point results in fused silica, a rigid, transparent substance, chemically unreactive to the vast majority of substances.
Nonmetals with eight valence electrons are chemically unreactive.
Some unreactive metals react only very slowly, such as copper and lead.
John Hartwig and his team at Yale University meanwhile have found a simple way to add a functional group using borane reagents and a rhodium complex catalyst to the commonly unreactive alkanes at a fairly mild 150 Celsius.
The most dense gas known, radon is colorless and chemically unreactive.