Usage of "inert gas" | TermGallery

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Any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table.

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Gas which does not undergo chemical reactions under a set of given conditions.

Related terms

class of chemical compounds with similar applications or functions

инертный газ

Usage of inert gas in English

One of the latest is the tungsten arc in an inert gas. 
 Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization 

The inert gas, nitrogen, had been discovered a year or two before. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 

Diesel is not so much an inert actor as an inert gas. 
 The Guardian 

It showed a carbon electrode in an inert gas chamber. 
 Map of bones 

Nitrogen by itself is an inert gas, colorless and uninflammable. 
 Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 

That's why each peach is filled with some inert gas. 
 Haunted: a novel of stories 

That was odd, since argon is an inert gas. 
 The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, a... 

Briefly Arcot and Wade discussed the unusual atmosphere, finally deciding that the inert gas was argon. 
 The Black Star Passes 

Edgerton created a stroboscopic light that contained a bulb full of an inert gas, initially mercury. 
 BBC 

Adopt controlled atmospheric stunning using inert gas or multi-phase systems, or effective electrical stunning without live inversion. 
 The Guardian 

Whatever the reason, the link to sonoluminescence will rewrite what it means to be an inert gas. 
 The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, a... 

Measurements were performed in healthy volunteers by use of the Kety-Schmidt technique with 133Xe as the inert gas. 
 Pubmed 

The case itself is filled with humidified argon, an inert gas that prevents photo-oxidation causing the writing to fade. 
 How to get a job in a museum or art gallery 

When you have something you want to preserve, you seal it inside a plastic envelope, and then pump in an inert gas. 
 The Complete Rama Omnibus 

Half of them were bottled using the standard industrial process with inert headspace and the other half without inert gas and with extra headspace. 
 Pubmed 

Tuesday's flight was testing the on-board nitrogen generation system designed to introduce the inert gas into the fuel tanks to reduce the chance of combustion. 
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