What are inorganic molecules?
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Inorganic molecules are discrete chemical units made up of atoms or atomic units that do not contain carbon based ligands or carbon based atomic units.
Some basic inorganic molecules include borane (B2H6) and silane (SiH4). Others are gallium chloride (Ga2Cl6), phosphoric acid (H3PO4) and borazine (B3N3H6). HCl gas is also an inorganic molecule.
Remember that to be a molecule, the atomic system must contain primarily covalently bound atoms with little or no electrostatic interaction with neighboring molecules.Thus typically inorganic substances like NaCl and BaSO4 are not molecular as they are made up of cations and anions that interact with neighboring oppositely charged ions.
How do you "know" if its a molecule? This can be tough from a molecular formula. Inorganic molecular species will often be low melting solids, liquids or gases.
Those without carbon
Inorganic molecules are molecules that do do not contain carbon by itself as a single atom. Take for example a coordination complex containing carbon monoxide. It contains carbon but is it organic, no. It is inorganic. However it is bonded to oxygen therefore it is not by itself as a single atom in the molecule.
everything besides carbon..
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