No. 12,905 in Spanish

pasivos

"Pasivos" in English means "liabilities" or "inactive/passive ones," depending on the context.

In a sentence

Los pasivos de la empresa se han incrementado este año.
The liabilities of the company have increased this year.
In this context, 'pasivos' refers to financial liabilities of an organization, a term used in accounting.
Los estudiantes fueron bastante pasivos durante la clase.
The students were quite passive during the class.
Here, 'pasivos' describes the behavior of the students as being passive, meaning not actively participating.
En el proceso químico, los componentes pasivos no reaccionan directamente.
In the chemical process, the passive components do not react directly.
In this sentence, 'pasivos' characterizes components that do not actively participate or react in the described chemical process.

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