...and it is not inert gasses. Check the 6th bunch of my SciBlings
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...or something like that. By way of skippy, comes this, erm, fascinating creationist exposition on the inertness of peanut butter:
General anaesthesia has come so far, and yet not. Back in the day, we used to use lipophilic compounds like diethyl ether and alkyl halides like chloroform, and now we use...well, lipophilic alkyl halides like desflurane.
That is one of the phrases that has been getting on my nerves for years now. So, I chuckled when I saw Keith Robison explain why that is not such a good corporate slogan.