organic

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Chemistry: types of chemical
acid salt
aerogel
albumin
alkali metal
alkaline
alkaloid
antioxidant
carbohydrate
coolant
homologous series
isopropanol
ketone
lectin
melamine
monosaccharide
mothball
propellant
saline
soluble
weak base

inorganic | American Dictionary

inorganic
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˌɪn·ɔrˈɡæn·ɪk/
not consisting of living material, or relating to substances that do not contain living material:
Rocks and metals are inorganic.
inorganic chemistry

Examples of inorganic

inorganic
On average, the quantities of organic and inorganic soil amendments applied did not seem to have changed greatly over the past 10 years.
The fact that organic fruit costs twice as much as inorganic fruit means greater profits and makes organic banana production a profitable agricultural system.
In both villages, the use of inorganic fertilisers is low but increasing (see figures 1a and b).
The natural philosophy of inorganic bodies is divided into mechanical and chemical, or into physics in the narrower sense, and chemistry.
Polychrome production must have involved considerable use of pigments, which are primarily derived from inorganic sources and therefore are likely to survive in archaeological contexts.
Heavy metals, pesticides, acidification and inorganic fertilisers7 have all produced a reduction in penetration and subsequent maturation of digeneans.
The addition of a sterile compost activator (a source of inorganic nutrients) to the vermiculite and seed mix resulted in greatly increased germination (95.2%).
This can be either within the molecular orbitals formed during bonding (most significant for organic compounds) or by charge transfer between cations (inorganic compounds).
Gradual evolution in a primordial organic world might produce a rather complex and diverse mixture of organic compounds and their inorganic partners.
In general, dissolved nutrient concentrations revealed low availability of inorganic nutrients in soils.
Furthermore, the effects of sea-level change on the global carbon cycle and the partitioning of carbonisotopes in organic versus inorganic reservoirs are undoubtedly complex.
In these studies, the nutrient quantities applied through manure or crop residues were, however, always below the nutrient quantities applied through inorganic fertilizers.
The study stream is a high-gradient, second-order stream with a heterogeneous mix of organic and inorganic substrates.
Future work will include analysis of organic compounds, as well as an increased number of inorganic, mineral and meteorite species.
The particular distinction of the montmorillonite structure from the other types is that water, free inorganic cations and polar molecules can occupy the interlamellar space.
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