inert substance

Inert substances with similar physical properties can be used to increase weight.

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

But his study was criticized because it did not include a control group of women who took inert substances rather than vitamins.

Then he will give them either an inert substance or another dose of marijanua.

Inert substances are nothing compared to the complexities of the mind.'

Half the children were given phenobarbital, and half received an inert substance.

Laboratory tests indicated the powder was an inert substance used to dilute the drug.

Individually, these are potent chemicals, but create a harmless, inert substance when combined.

Except for combustion, methane is a fairly inert substance.

There is something else I have heard of using some inert substance that is spread from hand to hand?

Macrogol is an inert substance that passes through the gut without being absorbed into the body.

Previously it had been thought that hydrocarbons were inert substances with little affinity for related compounds.

"A highly volatile mixture," she continued, "that can only be created through the combination of three otherwise inert substances.

In addition, half of the patients also are taking probucol and the others are taking an inert substance.

If placebos actually are to be prescribed and the patient's confidence enhanced, we need to have a range of names for these inert substances.

Conversely, a placebo is an inert substance that creates either a positive response or no response in a subject who takes it.

They can also transmute the radioactive wastes of fission power plants into safely inert substances.

There is a rather obvious precdent for what you suggest: a thriving industry in sugar pills and similarly inert substances.

They are pharmacologically inert substances that are given intravenously.

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

However, sugar was expensive and so Neal would substitute a cheaper, inert substance known as "daft" for the sugar.

Investigators caution that it is risky to generalize from this study since all subjects received the drug and none, for comparison, received an inert substance.

The term derives from the Latin word "plumbum" (lead) and refers to the insertion of an inert substance in the pleural space.

It is known that inert substances can alleviate symptoms in colds, asthma, sciatica, and even congestive heart failure through the power of suggestion alone.

The enclosure, for example, is made of an acoustically inert substance consisting of ground minerals and glass fibers, pressure-bonded by polymer.