How to Use inert gas in a Sentence

inert gas

noun

• During the process the torch blows an inert gas, such as argon, over the weld to protect it.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• The Legacy uses a low-pressure inert gas cartridge to pop the cork from the bottle.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• The wire is surrounded by a tube of inert gas, such as argon or xenon, that has a window.
  — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
• Another tanker could berth next to the ship and—while pumping inert gas into the Safer’s oil tanks—suck out its Marib crude.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The wire is surrounded by a glass bulb that is usually filled with an inert gas.
  — Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
• Nitrogen is an inert gas that makes up about 78 percent of the air people breathe.
  — Mike Cason, AL.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Rust has covered parts of the tanker and the inert gas that prevents the tanks from gathering inflammable gases, has leaked out.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2020
• The needle pierces the cork allowing the wine to flow, while argon, an inert gas, will fill the airspace inside the bottle and preserve the wine’s freshness.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2021
• The musty aroma didn’t supplant the fetor of failure and futility that hung in the air and along the corridors, like inert gases or the ghosts of the League of Nations.
  — Alejandro Varela, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• Hunter said that people who die by inhalation of inert gases are dead within just a few minutes.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 14 Mar. 2018
• If oxygen does not displace the inert gas within the individual’s system, in just a few minutes, death will occur.
  — Timothy Williams, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
• The only byproduct of a fusion reaction is helium, an inert gas.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
• The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb with a vacuum or inert gas to protect the filament from oxidation.
  — Regina Cole, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• The new method simply involves placing a wetsuit inside a pressure tank no bigger than a beer keg filled with a heavy inert gas such as xenon or krypton — which transfer far less heat than air does — for about a day.
  — Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2018
• Instead of a long spring, a piston is compressed inside a cylinder, similar in design to the struts on your car, containing an inert gas such as nitrogen.
  — Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 2 Mar. 2021
• Behind the scenes, the machine is pumping argon, an inert gas, back into the bottle, which protects the remaining wine from oxidation.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2021
• Gas-piston guns exhibit a similar action, but the inert gas offers a bit of a cushioning effect.
  — Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 2 Mar. 2021
• One option, Sefton-Nash says, would be to install specialized cabinets in which the sample would be protected from us, and us from them, by multiple layers of inert gas.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2020
• Professor Xie Xiujuan, lead scientist on the project, said the device was powered by a tube-shape vessel containing an inert gas.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019
• Early in the Lila emergency, the operator drilled three holes into the mine, then injected nitrogen, an inert gas that eventually pushed all the oxygen out of the mine, according to the BLM.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
• The boilers are needed to power generators that, among other things, keep an inert gas that prevents explosions flowing.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2020
• The boilers are needed to power generators that, among other things, keeps an inert gas that prevents explosions flowing.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2020
• To stop the powder oxidising and being contaminated by impurities in the air—or worse, exploding—that process needs to be carried out in a chamber filled with an inert gas.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Like its predecessors in the Coravin lineup, the Timeless Eleven utilizes a dual lumen needle that allows argon (an inert gas that protects the wine from oxidation) to flow into the bottle while wine flows out through the spout.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2022
• When spent nuclear fuel rods are removed from their reactor and cooled, they are typically surrounded in inert gas and sealed into thick steel and concrete casks that are intended to last for decades.
  — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 18 Dec. 2020
• That will have effects on things much more important than the party balloon industry; with a boiling point near absolute zero, the inert gas has all kinds of applications and uses in medicine and technology.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2016
• The sophisticated brewing apparatus pulls nitrogen from the atmosphere, compresses the inert gas and carbonates Grid City’s brew directly in the beer lines, allowing Gross to pour one of the smoothest brown ales in Utah.
  — Jeff Parrott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Nov. 2021
• Incandescent bulbs are constructed with a thin filament of tungsten wire surrounded by inert gas.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2016
• Read full article Carbonic maceration, in its purest form, describes a process where whole clusters of intact grapes begin to ferment from the inside out, sealed in a tank filled with carbon dioxide or other inert gas to displace oxygen.
  — Ellen Bhang, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• The modern equivalent uses a piston containing an inert gas such as nitrogen that stores energy when compressed, unleashing it when the trigger is pulled to provide velocities up as high as 1,500 fps.
  — Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 4 Dec. 2020

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