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from The Century Dictionary.
- Not organic; inorganic.
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Examples
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As the young Marx put it, earth is man's "anorganic body."
Archive 2007-01-01 enowning 2007
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The Grateful Dead frequently explored this universal change pattern in their lengthy jams, where they would begin with a well-structured tune, dissolve into anorganic space and then return to the same song (or a new one).
Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead Christopher Chase 1997
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Pigments are insoluble, finely ground paint panicles of anorganic (metallic oxides) or organic (coaltar dyes) compounds to be added to staining agents or varnishes.
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As a matter of fact, he most explicitly described the world of the human spirit, i.e., culture, as a world of its own, based on the biological order just the way this one is based on the anorganic order but not to be explained fully by its laws.
The Call of Nature Zimmer, Dieter E. 1980
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Like, how can someone compare organic material that is being devoured by existing organism in a matter of hours to a few years compare to anorganic matter of a certain composition being under certain conditions for a couple billion of years?
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Cerapedics is a privately held medical device company focused on developing and commercializing novel osteobiologic products based on its proprietary small peptide attachment factor technology platform. i-FACTOR bone graft is the only orthopedic bone graft substitute that combines a unique anorganic bone mineral (ABM) and small peptide (P-15 ™) to act as an attachment factor for specific integrins on osteogenic cells.
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Slide 16: Organic PCMs • for instance paraffines or polymers • heat conduction of material determines charging power, length of polymer chains determines melting temperature • relative to anorganic PCMs: larger melting heat and higher heat capacity • uniform melting behaviour, stable, non toxic, non corrosive • suited for impregnation of building materials • prevention of evaporation, odours and volume changes by encapsulation • available in different forms
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Talia Kahn-Kravis of Brooklyn works with the goats at Centro Ammehula, anorganic farm, in Santa Eulalia del Monte, Spain.
unknown title BY JEANNIE NUSS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2009
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