Passivate example sentences

pas·si·vate

verb

passivate (verb) · passivates (third person present) · passivated (past tense) · passivated (past participle) · passivating (present participle) · passivated (adjective)

  - make (a metal or other substance) unreactive by altering the surface layer or coating the surface with a thin inert layer:

  - coat (a semiconductor) with inert material to protect it from contamination.