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inorganic compound

compound that is not organic: i.e. does not contain carbon with exceptions e.g. CO, carbon dioxide, disulfide and diselenide, carbides, HCN, carbonic acid, cyanic, isocyanic and fulminic acids and carbonates, hydrogen carbonates, cyanides, cyanates
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Summary

inorganic compound is a structural class of chemical entities[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of structural class of chemical entities entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,533 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: chemical compound[3], inorganic substance[4]
  • Part of: response to inorganic substance[5], detoxification of inorganic compound[6], inorganic molecular entity transmembrane transporter activity[7]
  • Commons category: Inorganic compounds[8]
  • Opposite of: organic compound[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Inorganic compounds[10]
  • Equivalent class: http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#InorganicMolecularEntity[11], https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_4e659c69_ca2d_4569_8a96_f99857a1fa32[12]
  • Has list: list of inorganic compounds[13]
  • Studied by: inorganic chemistry[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15]

Why It Matters

inorganic compound has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

inorganic chemistry

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . BioTop. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Q141668297. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#InorganicMolecularEntity, https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_4e659c69_ca2d_4569_8a96_f99857a1f
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_4e659c69_ca2d_4569_8a96_f99857a1fa32"
  2. 7d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#InorganicMolecularEntity, https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_4e659c69_ca2d_4569_8a96_f99857a1f
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'bcl', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cv', 'da'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#InorganicMolecularEntity"
  3. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → inorganic-compounds
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: inorganic-compounds, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289936399|inorganic compounds (#289936399)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0010011-anorganicke-slouceniny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0010011-anorganicke-slouceniny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → response to inorganic substance, detoxification of inorganic compound, inorganic molecular entity transmembrane transporter activity
    Opposite of → organic compound
    Subclass of → chemical compound, inorganic substance
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 11314, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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