In a sentence
Six example sentences with reactive, each labelled with its topic.
Sodium is so reactive that chemists store it under oil, where nothing in the air can touch it.
Science
An aluminum bowl is too reactive for lemon curd, and the finished cream picks up a faint metallic edge.
Cooking
Ozone is highly reactive near the ground, attacking leaf tissue in crops long before people notice any haze.
Environment
Lithium is so reactive that battery factories assemble their cells inside sealed rooms where the air holds almost no moisture.
Technology
Fresco painters avoided certain pigments because they were reactive with wet lime and turned brown within a season.
Art
Engineers screen aggregate for reactive silica, since it swells inside concrete and cracks bridge decks decades after they are poured.
Architecture
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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Science Vocabulary List
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