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Inorganic chemistry is an essentially experimental subject comprising the chemistry of all elements with the exception of the chemistry of carbon compounds. Substances and reactions in the solid, liquid and gaseous state are studied. There are no clear-cut distinctions between inorganic chemistry and other subdivisions of the field; the chemistry of materials, organometallic chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry are typical borderline areas. In recent years, the swift development of the theoretical aspects of the subject and of new experimental and computional methods, as well as the discovery of new and different materials, such as the high-temperature superconductors and quasicrystals, have characterized inorganic chemistry. |
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