There have been few artists who have breathed so much life into the inert substance of clay.

In double-blind crossover trials for new medications, a portion of those receiving the inert substance experience a therapeutic effect.

In these, tiny beads of an inert substance, typically a modified silica, are packed tightly into a tube.

In this effect, giving an inert substance has negative consequences.

This discovery was based solely on the single prominent peak on the mass spectrograph, implying a chemically inert substance that was geometically closed with no dangling bonds.