passivated

[pas-uh-veyt]

pas·si·vate

[pas-uh-veyt]
verb (used with object), pas·si·vat·ed, pas·si·vat·ing. Metallurgy.
to treat (a metal) to render the surface less reactive chemically.

Origin:
1910–15; passive + -ate1

pas·si·va·tion, noun
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Passivated is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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