↑ Major textbooks on inorganic chemistry, however, decline to define inorganic compounds: Holleman, A. F.; Wiberg, E. "Inorganic Chemistry" Academic Press: San Francisco, 2001. ISBN 0-12-352651-5; Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, A. (1997), Chemistry of the Elements (ấn bản 2), Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, ISBN0-7506-3365-4 , Bản mẫu:Cotton&Wilkinson5th
