By statute or regulation in the United States and elsewhere, pesticide ingredients are divided into two categories: active and inert (sometimes referred to as other ingredients, adjuvants, or coformulants).
Gordimer tackles the subject in a thorough, dispassionate prose that often feels inert and sometimes lapses into pompous, rather trite oppositions: "The purpose of a doctor's life is to defend the body against the violence of pain.
These are brief and sometimes informative but dramatically inert.
Most countries surveyed by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Developmake (OECD) make a similar distinction, although terminology can be different: "adjuvants" and "formulants" are sometimes used to describe inert ingredients, and formulations can be called "preparations" (OECD 1994, 1998).
Under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA 2002), active ingredients those which "prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate any pest"—are subject to greater scrutiny than inert (or sometimes other) ingredients (U.S. EPA 1997).
The welding region is sometimes protected by some type of inert or semi-inert gas, known as a shielding gas, and filler material is sometimes used as well.
The effect of excluded cosolutes has previously been attributed to the large volume excluded by such inert cellular solutes, sometimes termed "macromolecular crowding".
Although sometimes assumed to be chemically inert, the reactivity of low-spin 5d IrIII centers is highly dependent on the set of ligands.
Important barriers were that GPs sometimes were too busy and clinically inert.
Sources of tungsten exposure include occupational use of tungsten inert gas, welding, and sometimes drinking water.
