Sentence examples for inert substances from inspiring English sources

Tablets for oral administration may be coated with inert substances such as wax.

In some cases fake antimalarial drugs contained inert substances such as chalk or starch, but in other cases they contained potentially dangerous drugs.

"Not only did we make it absolutely clear that these pills had no active ingredient and were made from inert substances, but we actually had 'placebo' printed on the bottle," said Kaptchuk.

Excipients are more or less inert substances added to the powdered drug in order to (1) facilitate the tablet-making process, (2) bind the tablet together so it will not break apart during shipping and handling, (3) facilitate dissolution after the tablet has been consumed, (4) enhance appearance and patient acceptance, and (5) allow for identification.

By addition of inert substances, the ignition and combustion behavior can be influenced.

For inert substances with a narcotic mode of action (baseline toxicity) this threshold was estimated as ETNCaqu = 1.9 μg/l.

The problem is that cinnamon powder contains an inert substance called cellulose, which can lodge in the lungs.

Essentially, patients with irritable bowel symptoms were given a choice between no treatment and treatment with "placebo pills made of an inert substance, like sugar pills".

But these batteries were flawed: unless fully discharged from time to time, the chemicals degraded to a stable, electrically inert substance.

The trial was conducted over the course of a season and – Oh dear, the inert substance did rather well – second place in the Premier League, Champions League runners-up and beaten finalists in the League Cup.

Samson is an inert substance-sniffer at odds with his siblings, Delilah a pretty girl devoted to her elderly grandmother, a tribal painter, and wrongly blamed for her death.