Inorganic Homologous Series
Homologous series are not unique to organic chemistry. Titanium, vanadium, and molybdenum oxides all form homologous series (e.g. VnO2n-1 for 2 < n < 10), as do the silanes, SinH2n+2 (with n up to 8) that are analogous to the alkanes, CnH2n+2.
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