Difference between Inorganic and Mineral

What is the difference between Inorganic and Mineral?

Inorganic as a noun is an inorganic compound while Mineral as a noun is any naturally occurring inorganic material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties.

Inorganic

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An inorganic compound

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: relating to a compound that does not contain carbon that does not originate in a living organism

Example sentence: Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.

Mineral

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: of, related to, or containing minerals

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any naturally occurring inorganic material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties.Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition; a dietary mineral.Mineral water.A soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.

Example sentence: Opening up of the coal mining and mineral sector at the same time has been a very positive step towards self-reliance.

We hope you now know whether to use Inorganic or Mineral in your sentence.

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