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Definition of Inorganic

1. Adjective. Relating or belonging to the class of compounds not having a carbon basis. "Hydrochloric and sulfuric acids are called inorganic substances"

2. Adjective. Lacking the properties characteristic of living organisms.

Definition of Inorganic

1. a. Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances.

Definition of Inorganic

1. Adjective. (chemistry) relating to a compound that does not contain carbon ¹

2. Adjective. (by extension) that does not originate in a living organism ¹

3. Noun. (chemistry) An inorganic compound ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inorganic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Inorganic

1. Pertaining to substances not of organic origin. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inorganic

inopportunity inoppressive inopulent inorb inorbed inorbing inorbs inorder inordinacies inordinacy

inordinate inordinately inordinateness inordination inordinations inorganic (current term) inorganic acid inorganic carbon inorganic chemicals inorganic chemist

inorganic chemistry inorganic chemists inorganic compound inorganic compounds inorganic dental cement inorganic murmur inorganic phosphate inorganic polymer inorganic polymers inorganic pyrophosphatase

Literary usage of Inorganic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The attempts of J. В. Burke to produce small living cells from inorganic matter by ... Others call the spontaneous origin of life from inorganic matter a ..."

2. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"We are first struck by the clear division of inorganic and all natural phenomena into two classes—of Organic phe- ^ c^ inorganic and of organic bodies. ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"REVIEW OF inorganic CHEMISTRY FOR 1907. BY JAS. LEWIS HOWE. Received January 13, 1908. The most important paper which has appeared in inorganic chemistry ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"Professor Dennis : General inorganic and ultimate organic analysis, ... Quantitative analysis; inorganic preparations ; Advanced quantitative analysis; ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1848)
"V.—On the Influence of Isomorphism in determining the Reactions that take place between inorganic Compounds, and the Elements of Living Beings. ..."

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