What is "inert gases"

Usage examples of "inert gases".

This would give you a series of atomic numbers for an infinite number of inert gases.

During the morning that breeze had gently blown away the invisible clouds of poisonous inert gases that had welled out from the holds when the inspection hatches were lifted.

Another person rose to state that it was-possible that the lack of nitrogen could be compensated for by the release of other inert gases, chiefly argon.

The suit's sensor, tasting the composition of what lay outside, indicated a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen, plus a couple of percent of inert gases, helium and argon.

They crowded inside it and waited for several long minutes while the pump mechanisms dealt with the hideous pressure that the ocean exerted, and slowly replaced it with an equally hideous pressure of air and inert gases.

The rest of the atmosphere consists of inert gases such as argon, neon and such, a whiff of carbon monoxide, and a trace of ozone.

Although air pressure had been reduced to a minimum and there was no shortage of the canisters that were used to scrub carbon dioxide from the circulating atmosphere, it was impossible to prevent a slow increase in the ratio of inert gases to the dwindling oxygen reserves.

Another person rose to state that it was possible that the lack of nitrogen could be compensated for by the release of other inert gases, chiefly argon.

Measuring more than twenty meters in diameter, he knew that this was one of thirty-six such reservoirs containing oxygen and other inert gases.

Atlas's atmosphere was perfectly breathable, containing the right mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and inert gases.

Here there was oxygen, nitrogen and surprisingly high quantities of the inert gases.

The atmosphere is mostly inert gases at about three hundred kilopascals.

Mildred snapped, and the companions retreated to a safe distance while the vault disgorged its contents of nonbreathable inert gases into the air system of the redoubt.