inactive
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- adjective
- /ɪnˈæktɪv/
- Specialized
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inerte
- Gold is all but chemically inactive, as you might have learned, in chemistry class, if you hadn't been ditching all the time to score dope, Sportello.
So placebos are only inactive outside the body.
- So placebos are only inactive outside the body.
- Out came retinols with an OL which is the inactive version of retinoic acid which is retinoids.
- But if we gave them therapy with inactive placebo, they did even better than if we gave them therapy with low dose MDMA.
Examples
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At medical school, I was taught the blunt truth that only inactive drugs are without side effects.
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This is the best measure of vitamin D stores, but it's really an inactive molecule itself.
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Then an inactive form of a toxic drug is administered...
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So placebos are only inactive outside the body.
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Products can be assumed to be inactive toward further reaction because their concentrations are very low.
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Angiotensinogen is produced by the liver and enters the circulation as an inactive substance.
Academic text (2011) -
Angiotensin I is also inactive and has no discernible effect on the body, but is part of the preparatory stage of the response to the loss of blood pressure.
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The peptide is inactive against bacteria, but it is highly potent against filamentous fungi.
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About 7% of Caucasians carry null alleles, which are homozygous polymorphisms that encode for an inactive allele.
Blog text (13) -
The compound remained inactive throughout the experiment, showing no signs of reaction.
Synonyms
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Not joining or reacting with other chemicals
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Not reacting easily with other substances
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A material that does not change when it touches another substance
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Not reacting with other substances
Does not easily take part in a chemical change, like noble gases
Not able to react easily under normal conditions
Is not working or taking part now
Antonyms
How Reactive
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Morphology
Etymology
Inactive is made of in- 'not' and active 'taking part', sharing the act in 'action', which gives the simple idea 'not doing'. So in chemistry an inactive substance is one that is 'not taking part' in the reaction.