inorganic chemical

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inorganic
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.ɔːˈɡæn.ɪk/us
/ˌɪn.ɔːrˈɡæn.ɪk/
not being or consisting of living material, or (of chemical substances) containing no carbon or only small amounts ...
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chemical
noun[C]
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/ˈkem.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈkem.ɪ.kəl/
any basic substance that is used in or produced by a reaction involving changes to atoms ...
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Contaminants found in ground water cover a broad range of physical,inorganicchemical, organic chemical, bacteriological, and radioactive parameters.
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Another advantage is the process recovers and reuses allinorganicchemicalreagents.
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But the basicinorganicchemicalprinciples are the same.
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Inorganicchemicalcompounds such as dietary minerals, water, and oxygen may also be considered nutrients.
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Understanding chemistry greatly aided the development of basicinorganicchemicalmanufacturing and the aniline dye industries.
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Most scientists now believe that the data were due toinorganicchemicalreactions of the soil.
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The active ingredient is theinorganicchemicalcalcium sodium phosphosilicate.
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Later, the company diversified into organic andinorganicchemicalproducts.
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However, there are examples of archea (unicellular organisms) that produce biomass from the oxidation ofinorganicchemicalcompounds (chemoautotrophs) in hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean.
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Enzymes can sometimes replace caustic inorganic chemicals in industrial processes.
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Fire water can be particularly polluting when the building or site being extinguished itself contains potentially polluting materials such as pesticides, organic andinorganicchemicalreagents, fertilizers, etc.
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This estate has about 250 small-scale factories, which produce different kinds of organic and inorganic chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
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Most scientists now believe that the data were due toinorganicchemicalreactions of the soil, although a few scientists still believe the results were due to living reactions.
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Although some progress is being made, we have not come anywhere near achieving the synthesis of a living cell from inorganic chemicals, even under the most contrived conditions imaginable.
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Chemical disease control started more than a century ago with the use of inorganic chemicals such as copper, sulphur and organic mercury, the first generation of fungicides.
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But it is not possible readily to identify the origin of inorganic chemicals in the run-off from agricultural land.
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The organic chemicals are nearly all liquids, and the inorganic chemicals are gases, liquids and a few slurries.
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Those pipe-lines convey over 30 organic and inorganic chemicals.
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There are 50 separate inorganic chemicals and numerous products based on nine groups of organic chemicals that may be used in the treatment of water for human consumption.
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