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Many energy-harvesting devices degrade in such environments, but this generator remained stable because its dielectric layer is chemically inert and its water-based structure is naturally resilient.

One man kills the other, hurls his inert body over the side—only to discover himself being yanked over the side.

In 2002, in perhaps one of the most ignominious episodes, the recycling center was dismantling Navy artillery shells — that were supposedly inert — when one exploded and a chunk of metal launched onto Jordan High’s campus.

A previously inert running game has picked up considerable speed, averaging 253.5 yards in the victories over Penn State and Michigan State.

"They tell me that they are digging so many boreholes - 140 boreholes or something - and all they have found there is inert waste, builders rubble and stuff."