What does it mean to say that a mineral is inorganic?

Answer 1

Inorganic refers to a mineral that is made of compounds which are not organic. When something is inorganic, it has not arisen from natural growth. Inorganic also refers to being of a non-biological and inanimate origin.

Answer 2

it was never alive, like rocks or metal. An example of organic would be wood.

AnswerInorganic means man-made. It is the opposite of organic, which means coming from the earth. Bio 101Inorganic also means the lack of carbon, as the prescence of carbon indicates that a substance is organic.

Answer 3

If something is inorganic, it means that there were chemicals that were used during the process of growing or packaging the object.

In chemistry the term refers to substance that do not contain some combination of the elements hydrogen and carbon.

Answer 4

This means that the mineral did not come/wasn't made from anything that used to be living, such as plants or animals.

Some minerals are of biogenic origin (see the link below). Also petroleum can be considered as an organic liquid mineral.

Answer 5

that mean that the mineral is not organic it mite have to be some thing else

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic