inorganic chemistry
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- noun
- /ˌɪnɔrˈgænɪk ˈkɛmɪstri/
- Specialized
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química inorgánica
- Before starting her fellowship, Pavese earned a PhD in inorganic chemistry and worked at General Electric.
Examples
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Fortunately, Joyce woke up and is studying inorganic chemistry with me.
Fiction book (1994) -
I'm a third-year chemistry student, looking to master inorganic chemistry.
Blog text (17) -
And that that parallelism between organic and inorganic chemistry, I think, has stemmed from this aspect of its history.
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Wthrich joined ETH in 1969, five years after he had earned a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and began working on NMR.
Academic text (2002) -
The professor explained the importance of inorganic chemistry in understanding metal properties.
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In her degree program, she is taking a course in inorganic chemistry to learn about non-carbon compounds.
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My research focuses on the properties of materials in inorganic chemistry, specifically metal complexes.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning is directly compositional: 'inorganic' (not containing carbon/living matter) specifies the type of 'chemistry' (the scientific study), so the combined sense — the branch of chemistry dealing with non‑organic compounds — follows immediately from the parts. This is a literal, technical label found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will reliably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Inorganic chemistry gets its name from an old idea: scientists once used 'organic' to mean 'from living things', so inorganic meant 'not from living things'. So inorganic chemistry is the study of metals, salts and minerals, the substances not made from plants or animals.