reactive

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: However, nitro groups make the ring much less reactive than the original benzene ring.

Modifies a noun

• arthritis: The doctor may ask about sexual activity in patients with possible reactive arthritis.
• dye: Guidance on reactive dyes can be found in Ref.
• hypoglycaemia: Reactive hypoglycaemia was ruled out in an oral glucose tolerance test.
• hyperaemia: Lewis T. , Grant R. ( 1925 ) ' Observations upon reactive hyperaemia in man ' .
• intermediate: Knowledge of how such reactive intermediates can be used in organic synthesis.
• hypoglycemia: The symptoms of atypical depression overlap with those associated with reactive hypoglycemia.

Modifying Another Word

• chemically: The recent SPADE campaign provided a wealth of high time resolution data on a very large number of chemically reactive species.
• purely: He points out that the Panel at present operates on a purely reactive basis.
• highly: Free radicals are highly reactive, always ready to give away the odd electron, or to accept one.
• essentially: There is disagreement about whether loyalist violence is essentially reactive, but certainly the pattern of loyalist violence has shadowed republican violence.
• largely: The approach is bottom-up and largely reactive to perceived need at grass-roots community level.
• merely: The design community does not have to be merely reactive to emerging technologies.

Infinitive complement

light: However pupils are reactive to light until terminal stages.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Hence, the response of the international community to conflicts has largely remained reactive, rather than proactive.
• become: They become more reactive Why are the alkali metals together in group 1?
• get: Down the group, the metals get more reactive, and the melting points and boiling points decrease.

Preposition: in

• nature: SAR operations are usually reactive in nature and require little or no action by the survivor.
• assay: CHANGE Reinstatement of donors whose serum has been confirmed to be falsely reactive in a microbiology assay.

Preposition: than

carbon: A metal such as iron, which is less reactive than carbon, can be extracted from its ore using carbon.