| Because of its chemical inertness, gold retains its brilliant colour even after centuries of exposure to corrosive elements. |
| Titanium has become the material of choice for implantable devices because of its strength, weight, and inertness to body fluids. |
| Compared with the stodge of American papers, their sheer inertness, what's on offer in England never fails to amaze me. |
| And on a larger scale, the entire universe in sixty million years can expect only a winding down into inertness due to the law of entropy. |
| Thus, properties such as malleability, a high degree of hardness, poor cleavage, and chemical inertness are favorable. |
| There is a slight interior blankness that makes obsession possible, an inertness without which glamour is only camp. |
