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Highly reactive elements can be kept from reacting by holding them in containers that are made of elements that are very unreactive (or at least not reactive to the highly reactive elements they contain). Unfortunately, the 6 known stable inert elements exist at room temperature only in gas form, so do not make good containers; however, some substances such as glass are very resilient and their molecular structures tend to be stable and unreactive (which is why glass is a common material for beakers and other containers to hold a wide -- but not unlimited -- variety of chemicals).

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