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Usually the term "inert" is applied to gas constituents of air which are not highly reactive, such as nitrogen or argon, and other gases, if considered separate from the oxygen we need for respiration and important to our body's gas exchange. Since the highly reactive oxygen is only about 21% of the air we breathe, the inert components make up the bulk of the remainder: nitrogen being about 78%, about 1% argon (as a noble gas, also highly unreactive), and much smaller amounts of carbon dioxide and other gases such as helium, methane, krypton, neon, and molecular hydrogen.

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