"passivate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: passivates [present, singular, third-person], passivating [participle, present], passivated [participle, past], passivated [past]
Etymology: passive + -ate Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|passive|ate}} passive + -ate Head templates: {{en-verb}} passivate (third-person singular simple present passivates, present participle passivating, simple past and past participle passivated)
  1. (chemistry) to reduce the chemical reactivity of a surface by applying a coating Categories (topical): Chemistry Derived forms: passivation Translations (to reduce the chemical reactivity of a surface): пасивирам (pasiviram) (Bulgarian), passivar (Catalan), passivoida (Finnish), passivieren (German), passivare (Italian)

Inflected forms

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