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inorganic adjective

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Definition

not being or consisting of living material, or (of chemical substances) containing no carbon or only small amounts of carbon
Salt is an inorganic chemical.
The meteorites contained only inorganic material.
Compare: organic

(Definition of inorganic adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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