Difference between revisions of "Inorganic"
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Revision as of 00:45, October 25, 2008
Inorganic means something is not composed of organic material; organic material must contain carbon, by definition. By extension, organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon. All living material is composed mainly of carbon atoms, hence the association of "organic" with "living", though that association does not necessarily hold in all cases.