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- Inert - a. - Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.
- Inert - a. - Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.
- Inert - a. - Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.
- Inertia - n. - That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; -- sometimes called vis inertiae.
- Inertia - n. - Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness.
- Inertia - n. - Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
- Inertion - n. - Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude.
- Inertitude - n. - Inertness; inertia.
- Inertly - adv. - Without activity; sluggishly.
- Inertness - n. - Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
- Inertness - n. - Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
- Paranthracene - n. - An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.
- Stick - v. t. - A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.
- Neutralizer - n. - One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.
- Nitrogen - n. - A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva.
- Excipient - n. - An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents.
- Neutralize - v. t. - To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base.
- Rhodium - n. - A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12.
- Phospham - n. - An inert amorphous white powder, PN2H, obtained by passing ammonia over heated phosphorus.