Inert

I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralyzed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog.

It doesn't make any difference, guys. The balls are inert.

Nitrous oxide is inert at room temperature.

Seated upon the ground, he had seemed as lazy and inert as a hog, but now his body was as tense and active as that of a panther.

The alveoli are normally stabilized against collapse by the presence of inert and relatively insoluble gas (nitrogen) and an internal coating of lipoprotein substances with low surface tension.

Like all modern airships, the new Zeppelin NT is filled with the inert gas helium, instead of the highly flammable hydrogen gas that doomed the Hindenburg. With its three propellers, it can fly at about 100 kilometers an hour with a good tailwind—and at a height of about 2,000 meters.

Without the effective resistance of minorities the general will may become tyrannous or without the stimulus they afford it may become inert.

"As for the other forms of magic, previous systems of magic are now accessible if one knows how to do so, though no human alive should know how. This does mean some magical objects and wands rendered inert by previous changes will work again."