Meanings of chemically inert in English

Seemingly such a molecule, whatever its physical properties, must be chemically inert, incapable of any atomic readjustments.

Still, these hybrids are the closest thing we have to the ideal chemically inert but thermally responsive pan.

The nitrogen, which makes up much of the air we breathe, is chemically inert and can be used again and again.

This problem has been largely overcome by the development of chemically inert membranes that retain proteins after electroblotting from the polyacrylamide gel.

It is "among the most nonreactive, chemically inert molecules in the living world," in the words of the geneticist Richard Lewontin.