Chlorine will, instead, likely be bound up as salts and other inert compounds.

Fluoroantimonic acid is so strong that it protonates otherwise inert compounds like hydrocarbons.

Freons are very inert compounds under ordinary circumstances.

Researchers need to be able to control the ratio of active to inert compounds in the plant by manipulating growing conditions.

PhF is a relatively inert compound because the C-F bond is very strong.

It's a chemical reaction which affects inert compounds such as concrete, steel, plastic - and living tissue.

The inert compounds react with living tissue and absorb the entire body.

Some men received a placebo, an inert compound with no medical value.

Osmium tetroxide is rapidly reduced to relatively inert compounds by polyunsaturated vegetable oils, such as corn oil.

Silicones are inert, synthetic compounds with a variety of forms and uses.