Some Are Inert

• Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.

• A chemical element or compound in such a state.

• A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.

• A hob on a gas cooker.

• Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process.

• A humorous or entertaining event or person.

• Frothy talk; chatter.

• A fastball.

• Arterial or venous blood gas.

• Marijuana, typically of high quality.

• Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.

• Gas pedal.

• To kill with poisonous gas.

• To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.

• To impose upon by talking boastfully.

• To emit gas.

• To impregnate with gas.

• To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.

• To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.

• To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.

• unable to move or resist motion

• having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive

• slow and apathetic

• a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere