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adjective

Inorganic adj.

Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate.

(Chem.) Of or pertaining to compounds that are not derivatives of hydrocarbons; not organic (5). Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series of substances (as minerals, metals, etc.), which are not directly connected with vital processes, either in origin or nature, and which are broadly and relatively contrasted with organic substances. See Organic (5).

Inorganic Chemistry. See under Chemistry.

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Etymology of 'Inorganic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inorganic" Quotes from Famous Books

... see no good reason for doubting the necessary alternative, that all these varied species have been evolved from pre-existing crocodilian forms, by the operation of causes as completely a part of the common order of nature, as those which have effected the changes of the inorganic world. ...

— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

... of rough material, out of which a man might be made. But who should mould that matter? It is extremely difficult to understand how it came about, as difficult almost as to understand how a certain amount of inorganic molecules will sometimes suddenly seem to obey an impulse from within, and become an organism, a yeast plant, or a microscopic animal; but whether or not we succeed in understanding the how and why of the phenomenon, ...

— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

... a minister's daughter, and familiar from her childhood with this class of questions, especially with all the doubts and perplexities which are sure to assail every thinking child bred in any inorganic or not thoroughly vitalized faith,—as is too often the case with the children of professional theologians. The kind of discipline they are subjected to is like that of the Flat-Head Indian pappooses. At five or ten or fifteen years old they put their hands up to their foreheads ...

— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... application of certain poisons, on the other hand, permanently abolished its sensitiveness." He was amazed at this discovery—this parallelism in the behaviour of the 'receiver' to the living muscle. This led him to a systematic study of all matter, Organic and Inorganic, Living and Non-Living. ...

— Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose - His Life and Speeches • Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose

... obviously, had come the gas which had strangled the crews of the dirigibles, and the covering over nose and mouth was a novel gas mask. The material they were made of could, obviously, be rendered invisible—a virtue not possessed by ordinary inorganic substances. Invisible death from an invisible container, ...

— Raiders Invisible • Desmond Winter Hall

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