Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Involving neither organic life nor the products of organic life.
- adj. Not composed of organic matter.
- adj. Chemistry Of or relating to compounds not containing hydrocarbon groups.
- adj. Not arising in normal growth; artificial.
- adj. Lacking system or structure.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not organic; not organized; specifically, not having that organization which characterizes living bodies. See organic and organism.
- Not produced by vital processes: as, an inorganic compound.
- In philology, of unintended or accidental origin; not normally developed: as, the distinctions of lead and led, of man and men, of was and were, which are of phonetic origin; or the i of Fr. vient (Latin venit), as compared with that of mais (Latin magis).
Wiktionary
- adj. chemistry relating to a compound that does not contain carbon
- adj. by extension that does not originate in a living organism
- n. chemistry An inorganic compound
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate.
- adj. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to compounds that are not derivatives of hydrocarbons; not organic{5}.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking the properties characteristic of living organisms
- adj. relating or belonging to the class of compounds not having a carbon basis
Examples
“Were not man's origin implicated, we should accept without a murmur the derivation of animal and vegetable life from what we call inorganic nature.”
“Incipient life, as it were, manifests itself throughout the whole of what we call inorganic nature.”
“Progress slowed during the second of half of the 19th century, although critical advances in inorganic and organic chemistry helped to usher in a new era for physiological chemistry.”
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry
“He published over 200 papers, particularly in inorganic biochemistry and bioenergetics.”
“Atomic Energy Commission, partly because of his 1951 Nobel Prize for work in inorganic chemistry.”
“Much of the progress in inorganic chemistry during the 20th century has been associated with investigations of coordination compounds, i.e., a central metal ion surrounded by a number of coordinating groups, called ligands.”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
“Another early prize for work in inorganic chemistry was that to Fritz”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
“Hevesy from Stockholm received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers, involving studies in inorganic chemistry and geochemistry as well as on the metabolism in living organisms.”
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
“Beauty in nature, both organic and inorganic, is a difficult metaphysical principle to deny.”
“Awni is a scientist with a doctorate in inorganic chemistry from the University of Florida at Gainesville.”
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
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