inorganic salt; mineral salt
Technical term used in chemistry and related fields. Refers to salts that do not contain carbon-hydrogen bonds, or broadly to mineral-derived salts.
Inorganic salts are used in many industrial processes.
This fertilizer contains mineral salts.
Compound of 無機 (inorganic) and 塩 (salt). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term follows standard Sino-Japanese word formation for scientific vocabulary.