Like non-hydrocarbon compounds

Usage examples of inorganic.

There was air, of course, of breathable content and pressure, through which from time to time there passed a wave of some exotic, inorganic stench.

They will allow meaningful statements about dogs and cats, because they are organic as distinct from inorganic, mammals as distinct from marsupials, and, though frisky, have clearly defined boundaries which demark them from the whole world of non-dogs and non-cats.

The solution was to digitize the inorganic stuff before you left, creating, in effect, little computer programs that could be used to recreate your belongings when you got there.

Arabs in the past, a related race after all, hence the purely chemical tendency in medicine, whereas naturopathy, in the end it all boils down to the question of the organic and the inorganic as such: it was not without reason that Goethe identified the effort to make a homunculus not with Faust but with Wagner his famulus, because Wagner, it is safe to assume, represents the typically Jewish element, whereas Faust: because one thing is certain, they are without genius of any kind.

His left eye was obviously inorganic, a lid-less, lashless, dark-rimmed monocle, with a lens instead of a pupil visible in the center.

The close of this process of organific metamorphosis and desquamation is death, whose finality is utter decomposition, restoring all the bodily elements to the original inorganic conditions from which they were taken.

Her trained painterly eye immediately notes the inorganic intrusion of this rectangular form, and she is offended by its disdain for the spirit of Gothic architecture, bespeaking the callousness of the local winner in the historical dispute between two versions of the same faith.

The growth of Wheat Year after Year on the same Land, unmanured, with Farm-yard Manure, and with various Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers.

First the epoxy resin of the outer layer of paint, then the urethane intermediate coating, and the inorganic zinc primer, all those chemicals disassociated from their complex molecular structure and dissolved into atomic nuclei and electrons.

In simple physical systems the rules of scaling are understood, but even in complex inorganic situations like meteorology or aerodynamics, simple by the standard of biology, extrapolations are not easy.

So on the one hand there is the organic, biologically generative process represented by Indo-European, while on the other there is an inorganic, essentially un-regenerative process, ossified into Semitic: most important, Renan makes it absolutely clear that such an imperious judgment is made by the Oriental philologist in his laboratory, for distinctions of the kind he has been concerned with are neither possible nor available for anyone except the trained professional.

Since they entered into that world with all their physicality, the fixation of their assemblage points on the position preselected by the inorganic beings was so overpowering that it created a sort of fog that obliterated any memory of the world they came from.

Inorganic beings are superb projectionists, who delight in projecting themselves like pictures on the wall.

For inorganics, ceramics for example, or flint which has been burned before it was buried, we could use thermoluminescence dating, or TL, which in principle lets us date way further back than fifty thousand years.

Life is irrational, unamenable to inorganic logic and systematization.