Almost everything has an inert ingredient. Even the air that we breathe is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen. That leaves a full one percent of the air as an inert ingredient.
In fact, the most prevalent inert ingredient in the air is argon gas. Although in minute quantities this gas is harmless, in larger quantities it can be fatal. The same is true of carbon dioxide, the second most prevalent inert ingredient in air. Neither can be detected easily. Both can cost someone his or her life if enough of these gases is ingested. Each gas is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. Consequently, neither is easily detected. As we are about to see, some other inert ingredients are also dangerous enough to cost someone his or her life, even in minute quantities. Many, like argon gas and carbon dioxide, are practically impossible to detect. One such ingredient is the premise for this story.
From the prologue to "THE INERT INGREDIENT; THE PREQUEL TO PRECISION ( THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES OF FIVE).
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