FROM Western Australia we have received an interesting report on investigations into the development of inertness in industrial explosives of the nitro-compound class by Mr. E. A. Mann, Chief ...

Chemistry textbook authors may soon have to rewrite sections covering noble gases and chemical inertness. An international research team has reported the synthesis of a helium-sodium compound that’s ...

Giovanni Baccolo relates tales of tantalum, an element known, and named, for its inertness, yet one that holds some surprises, such as a naturally occurring nuclear isomer. Element 73 was first ...

This article discusses laboratory chemical inertness and corrosion test results for various chemically deposited coatings utilized by the process analyzer manufacturers. Enhancing chemical composition ...