Inorganic Chemistry

Specialty Definition: Inorganic chemistry

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Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the study of materials that contain any combination of chemical elements except for organic compounds. Major branches include:

Minerals, such as salt, asbestos, silicates, , ...
Metals and their alloys, like iron, copper, aluminum, brass, bronze, ...
Compounds involving non-metallic elements, like silicon, phosphorus, ,chlorine, oxygen, for example water
Metal complexes

Some important inorganic products are silicon chips, transistors, LCD screens, and fiber optics.

Inorganic chemistry often overlaps with mineralogy, geochemistry,analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, physical chemistry, and organometallic chemistry. Organometallic chemistry combines aspects of organic chemistry with inorganic chemistry, and is partially characterized by the study of metal-carbon bonds, in which the carbon, apart from the metal-carbon bond, would otherwise be considered a part of an organic compound. Vitamin B12, whose active site is similar to that of hemoglobin, is a naturally-occurring, metabolically-important organometallic compound containing a large organic components (corrin and protein), a metal (cobalt), a bond between the metal and the carbon of a methyl group. Despite the presence of metal ions or metal-carbon bonds, gold cyanide, calcium carbonate, and nickel tetracarbonyl (to name just a few such) are inorganic, rather than organometallic, compounds, although some chemists consider metal carbonyls to be organometallic.

Adding to the confusion, the oxides of carbon, carbonate salts, and materials containing carbon like steel and diamond are usually considered inorganic, while the inorganic molecule nitric oxide is often studied for biochemical effects.

Much of inorganic chemistry deals with molecular compounds, i.e many inorganic materials have a structure that can be described in terms of molecules but many others do not. The study of such solids is called solid state chemistry. It is a branch of materials science.

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Commercial Usage: Inorganic Chemistry

Domain	Title
Books	Concepts and Models of Inorganic Chemistry (reference) Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry (reference) Inorganic Chemistry (Applied Science Review Series) (reference) The Biological Chemistry of the Elements: The Inorganic Chemistry of Life (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Inorganic Chemistry (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Inorganic Chemistry

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Business		As a result of cooperation with foreign companies, a large number of reconstruction projects have been prepared for organic and inorganic chemistry. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Inorganic Chemistry

Modern Translation: Inorganic Chemistry

Language		Translations for "inorganic chemistry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		uorganisk kemi. (various references)

Dutch		anorganische scheikunde, anorganische chemie. (various references)

French		chimie minérale, chimie inorganique. (various references)

German		anorganische Chemie. (various references)

Greek		ανόργανος χημεία. (various references)

Italian		chimica inorganica. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無機化学 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むきかがく. (various references)

Manx		kemmig neuorgaanagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		inorganicay emistrychay.(various references)

Portuguese		química inorgânica. (various references)

Spanish		química inorgánica. (various references)

Thai		เคมีอนินทรีย์. (various references)
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Misspellings: Inorganic Chemistry

Anagrams: Inorganic Chemistry

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inorganic chemistry	63
journal of inorganic chemistry	4
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Inorganic Chemistry

Definition: Inorganic Chemistry