0 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.
1 not consisting of living material, or relating to substances that do not contain living material:
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).
