Sentence examples for quite inert from inspiring English sources

Silver is quite inert, but has a lower electrode potential than gold and so does react with some foods and indeed the mouth, producing a mild metallic taste.

The element has a somewhat lower electronegativity than the others, and its lone pair of electrons is evidently quite inert, causing the +5 state of bismuth to be rare and unstable.

Gold is a chemically quite inert element, and no single acid dissolves it.

To address this, MNPs should be covered with an external quite inert shell, in order to protect the magnetic core against chemical changes.

As a platinum-group metal, the bulk material is quite inert.

Coal was quite inert and could be used as part of the ship's protection scheme.

Research on the environmental fate and toxicology of halogenated compounds has focused primarily on brominated and chlorinated organics, whereas fluorinated organics received less attention, partly because of the perception that these compounds, which are quite chemically inert, were also biologically inert (Key et al. 1997).

"It is quite an inert molecule that does one main thing, which is bind water, which stabilises cell membrane tissues against physical or chemical damage," said Dr Andreas Bilstein, at Bitop.

Centres of Cataclysm does accommodate quite a bit of inert material.

The most shocking thing about Rembrandt's painting is not the peeled head, but the chasm of the thorax, and the fact that its darkness is not quite as black and inert as the painting's background.

As shown in Fig. 7b, if N atoms are not doped, the surface of CNTs becoming quite stable and electrochemically inert give rise to the agglomerate formation of Pt NPs on CNTs accompanied by inferior EC activity.