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inert gas

[i′nərt ′gas]
(chemistry)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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"However, these areas need to be correctly designed for the pressure differential that will occur if inert gas sprinklers are triggered.
When the Argweld Quick Purge has been positioned inside the pipe, by using pull tags, it is inflated by the inert gas supply so that each end dam forms a seal.
There is no need for an inert gas such as nitrogen as the steam is oxygen free acting as an inert gas, which is ideal for products susceptible to oxidation or flavour loss.
Key statement: The rubber particles, at a room temperature below the glass transition temperature, are introduced into a comminuting device concurrent with the introduction of an inert gas coolant at a temperature below about -75[degrees]F and are comminuted at a rate proportional to the average particle size of the introduced rubber particles to an average size within the range of crumb or powder rubber particles.
The activities of Linde and Spectra overlap on the European Economic Area (EEA) markets for a number of specialty gases, such as noble gases, inert gas mixtures, brominated compound gas mixtures and fluorine gas mixtures.
NanoGetters technology includes wafer-level, high-vacuum, packaging for a variety of products which can be used in gas purification and for improving inert gas packaging.
Numerous inert gas compounds have been created since and many have already made an impact on our daily lives.
In 1996, "the safety board called for pumping the tanks full of inert gas so they could not explode" In 2004, "the FAA said it was close to proposing" such a rule but it has yet to do so.
The newspaper says the world's largest restaurant chain is looking at using "controlled atmosphere killing," where chickens are killed by replacing oxygen in the air with an inert gas such as nitrogen or argon.
The closed system protects the sample from external light and allows purging with an inert gas. For more details, contact: 800.722.7556, www.anton-paar.com.
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