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inorganicin‧or‧gan‧ic /ˌɪnɔːˈɡænɪk◂ $ -ɔːr-/ adjective - Cairns-Smith believes that the original life on this planet was based on self-replicating inorganic crystals such as silicates.
- Chemists divide their subject into two main branches, organic and inorganic.
- Pigments and inorganic primers had little influence on the results.
- Some inorganic compounds with covalent characteristics also have chain structures.
- The waste is being processed in a new government-owned plant which can treat a wide range of organic and inorganic materials.
- They are producers, the only organisms able to develop organic substances from inorganic mineral elements and their compounds.
- This organic staining method was chosen to minimize the risk of contamination by inorganic elements.
► HARD SCIENCEbaseline, nounboffin, nounconservation, nounconservationist, nouncontrol, nouncorrelation, noundouble-blind, adjectiveformula, nouninorganic, adjectiveinorganic chemistry, noun-logy, suffixmetallurgy, nounmicroscope, nounnatural science, nounnomenclature, noun-ologist, suffix-ology, suffixosmosis, nounphysical science, nounpipette, nounscience, nounscience park, nounscientist, nountechnical, adjectivetest tube, nountheoretical, adjectivetheoretically, adverbtheorist, nountheorize, verbtheory, nountoxicology, noun ► an inorganic compound (=not containing carbon) NOUN► chemistry· Louise and Amelia were also both enrolled in an inorganic chemistry course at Columbia and an organic chemistry course at Barnard.· Their study is at the interface of inorganic chemistry and geochemistry.· He took a degree in chemistry at New College, Oxford, and subsequently gained a DPhil in inorganic chemistry.· Thus, it is intended to follow a basic course in organic and/or inorganic chemistry.· There he worked on the unfashionable inorganic chemistry; his science was always to be on the boundary of physics and chemistry. ► material· The waste is being processed in a new government-owned plant which can treat a wide range of organic and inorganic materials.· Moreover, this human engine became the prototype for later machines, even though they would be constructed of largely inorganic materials.· These are: biomaterials, advanced inorganic materials, composites and near-net shape forming.· Cairns-Smith's guess is that the original replicators were crystals of inorganic materials, such as those found in clays and muds.· Practically any archaeological in exceptional circumstances. inorganic materials survive far ones. not consisting of anything that is living: inorganic matter—inorganically /-kli/ adverb |