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Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry that deals with inorganic compounds, typically those not based on carbon–hydrogen frameworks. The field covers elements and their compounds, including metals, minerals, oxides, sulfides, halides, nitrides, carbides, and phosphates, as well as coordination complexes and materials such as ceramics and catalysts. Inorganics can be salts and ionic lattices, covalent network solids, and clusters and nanoparticles. Although many inorganic species lack carbon–hydrogen bonds, some inorganic carbon compounds (such as carbonates and cyanides) blur this boundary.

The discipline overlaps with solid-state chemistry, materials science, catalysis, and bioinorganic chemistry, and includes subfields at the interface with organometallic chemistry. Common research areas include synthesis and structure determination (often by X-ray crystallography), spectroscopy (IR, UV-Vis, NMR), electrochemistry, and computational methods. Applications span industrial catalysts, pigments and materials, fertilizers, electronics and magnetic materials, ceramics, and pharmaceuticals.

Historically, inorganic chemistry developed from mineralogy and metallurgy and has since expanded to address bonding, reactivity, and properties across a wide range of systems. The boundary with organic chemistry is diffuse; organometallic chemistry and certain carbon-containing inorganic species are studied in both fields. The study of inorganic chemistry intersects with physics, geology, and biology, reflecting its broad relevance to science and industry.