Examples of inorganic molecule in the following topics:
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- Chemotrophs are a class of organisms that obtain their energy through the oxidation of inorganic molecules, such as iron and magnesium.
- Chemoautotrophs are able to synthesize their own organic molecules from the fixation of carbon dioxide.
- The energy required for this process comes from the oxidation of inorganic molecules such as iron, sulfur or magnesium.
- Chemoheterotrophs, unlike chemoautotrophs, are unable to synthesize their own organic molecules.
- They do, however, still obtain energy from the oxidation of inorganic molecules like the chemoautotrophs.
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- Weaker bonds can also form between molecules.
- When this happens, an interaction occurs between the δ+of the hydrogen from one molecule and the δ– charge on the more electronegative atoms of another molecule, usually oxygen or nitrogen, or within the same molecule.
- This type of bond is common and occurs regularly between water molecules.
- Hydrogen bonds occur in inorganic molecules, such as water, and organic molecules, such as DNA and proteins.
- The slightly negative oxygen side of the water molecule and the slightly positive hydrogen side of the water molecule are attracted to each other and form a hydrogen bond.
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- Inorganic nutrients are elements or simply molecules that are made of elements other than carbon and hydrogen.
- Oxygen is an important component of both organic and inorganic compounds.
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- A lithotroph is an organism that uses an inorganic substrate (usually of mineral origin) to obtain reducing equivalents for use in biosynthesis (e.g., carbon dioxide fixation) or energy conservation via aerobic or anaerobic respiration.
- Known chemolithotrophs are exclusively microbes; no known macrofauna possesses the ability to utilize inorganic compounds as energy sources.
- These molecules can be organic (chemoorganotrophs) or inorganic (chemolithotrophs).
- The electron acceptor can be oxygen (in aerobic bacteria), but a variety of other electron acceptors, organic and inorganic, are also used by various species.
- Other lithotrophs are able to directly utilize inorganic substances, e.g., iron, hydrogen sulfide, elemental sulfur, or thiosulfate, for some or all of their energy needs.
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- X-ray crystallography is a method of determining the arrangement of atoms within molecules.
- Substances including inorganic salts and minerals, semiconductors, and organic and biological compounds can form crystals under suitable and specific conditions.
- This process reveals the geometry of the atoms within the molecules.
- X-ray crystallography is a powerful tool that has broad applications in the determination of the structures of both organic and inorganic compounds.
- An X-ray diffraction pattern of a crystallized protein molecule.
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- In the present day biosphere, the most common electron donors are organic molecules.
- Organisms that use organic molecules as an energy source are called organotrophs.
- Some prokaryotes can use inorganic matter as an energy source.
- This type of metabolism must logically have preceded the use of organic molecules as an energy source.
- Just as there are a number of different electron donors (organic matter in organotrophs, inorganic matter in lithotrophs), there are a number of different electron acceptors, both organic and inorganic.
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- Plants are composed of water, carbon-containing organics, and non-carbon-containing inorganic substances such as potassium and nitrogen.
- As water vapor is lost from the leaves, the process of transpiration and the polarity of water molecules (which enables them to form hydrogen bonds) draws more water from the roots up through the plant to the leaves .
- Plant nutrients may be composed of either organic or inorganic compounds.
- An inorganic compound does not contain carbon and is not part of, or produced by, a living organism.
- Inorganic substances (which form the majority of the soil substance) are commonly called minerals: those required by plants include nitrogen (N) and potassium (K), for structure and regulation.
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- Inorganic nutrients, soil structure, and aquatic oxygen availability are further abiotic factors that affect species distribution in an ecosystem.
- Inorganic nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, are important in the distribution and the abundance of living things.
- Plants obtain these inorganic nutrients from the soil when water moves into the plant through the roots.
- Animals obtain inorganic nutrients from the food they consume.
- Oxygen availability can be an issue for organisms living at very high elevations, where there are fewer molecules of oxygen in the air.
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- A large number of reagents, both inorganic and organic, have been found to add to this functional group, and in this section we shall review many of these reactions.
- Remember, the bond energies of a molecule are the energies required to break (homolytically) all the covalent bonds in the molecule.
- Consequently, if the bond energies of the product molecules are greater than the bond energies of the reactants, the reaction will be exothermic.
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- "Hydrate" is a term used in inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry to indicate that a substance contains loosely bonded water.
- The notation of hydrous compound · nH2O, where n is the number of water molecules per formula unit of the salt, is commonly used to show that a salt is hydrated.
- An organic hydrate is a compound formed by the addition of water or its elements to another molecule.
- Molecules have been labeled as hydrates for historical reasons.
- Generate the chemical formula and systematic name of a given inorganic hydrate