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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

... into direct consciousness one of the first aspects (and no doubt one of the truest) under which people saw life was just thus: as a series of rebirths and transformations. (1) The most modern science, I need hardly say, in biology as well as in chemistry and the field of inorganic Nature, supports that view. The savage in earliest times FELT the truth of some things which we to-day are only beginning intellectually to ...

— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter

... itself"** and as life, according to the occult doctrine, is the one energy acting, Proteus-like, under the most varied forms, the occultists have a certain right to use such phraseology. Life is ever present in the atom or matter, whether organic or inorganic—a difference that the occultists do not accept. Their doctrine is that life is as much present in the inorganic as in the organic matter: when life-energy is active in the atom, that atom is organic; when dormant or latent, then the ...

— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various

... of the bar dulled with swift oxidation; slowly it turned brownish and flaked away, almost entirely consumed. The acid—if that was what the red stuff was—was awesomely powerful, at least with inorganic substances. ...

— The Raid on the Termites • Paul Ernst

... in nature two types or forms, the cell and the crystal. One means the organic, the other the inorganic; one means growth, development, life; the other means reaction, solidification, rest. The hint and model of all creative works is the cell; critical, reflective, and philosophical works are nearer akin to the crystal; while ...

— Birds and Poets • John Burroughs

... incompatible with religious association and with organisation upon the basis of a common faith. It is possible to regard God as a Being synthetic in relation to men and societies, just as the idea of a universe of atoms and molecules and inorganic relationships is analytical ...

— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

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