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  • noun Plural form of inorganic.

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Examples

  • Does very bad things to both organics and inorganics.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Again most of the salts and inorganics, either react harmlessly, or come back out.

    Energy 101: Hydraulic Fracturing - Vladimir’s blog - RedState 2010

  • Does very bad things to both organics and inorganics.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Monkey Suit - Alastair Reynolds Blue Tyson 2010

  • Coal burning emits SO2 which may induce cooling, but also PM, which is brown/black inorganics and coal rests.

    RMS and Sulphate Emissions « Climate Audit 2007

  • 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.

    The Magyar Venus Hamilton, Lyn 2004

  • Ziegler-Natta catalyst system then in use by Shell to produce isotactic polypropylene was no where near as efficient as those currently in use, and the level of inorganics remaining in the polymer was high.

    Richard E. Smalley - Autobiography 1997

  • Haeckel's application of the word "living" to his inorganics ( "living inorganics"), takes them out of the category of the inorganic.

    The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879

  • Haeckel, Ernst, 3, 285; on physical activity in the atom, 25, 26; his "living inorganics," 91; on the origin of life, 161; on inheritance and adaptation, 184; his "plastidules," 217;

    The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879

  • We can help ourselves out, as Haeckel does, by calling the physical forces -- such as the magnet that attracts the iron filings, the powder that explodes, the steam that drives the locomotive, and the like -- "living inorganics," and looking upon them as acting by "living force as much as the sensitive mimosa does when it contracts its leaves at touch."

    The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879

  • The magnet that attracts iron filings, the powder that explodes, the steam that drives the locomotive, are living inorganics; they act by living force as much as the sensitive Mimosa does when it contracts its leaves at touch, or the venerable Amphioxus that buries itself in the sand of the sea, or man when he thinks.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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