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Offline Snail

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yeah, tl;dr man

 

Offline Scotty

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I'm looking more at number 1, particularly the "that now includes all other compounds of carbon" part.

I will not be denied!  :D


  

Offline Herra Tohtori

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And carbon is not a carbon compound. It's carbon. Element number 6.

And I'll be damned before I call carbonates organic anyway. My definition of organic materials sees methane as the simplest organic molecule.

EDIT:

Organic compound
Compounds of carbon

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An organic compound is any member of a large class of chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon. For historical reasons discussed below, a few types of compounds such as carbonates, simple oxides of carbon and cyanides, as well as the allotropes of carbon, are considered inorganic. The division between "organic" and "inorganic" carbon compounds while "useful in organizing the vast subject of chemistry...is somewhat arbitrary".

I couldn't agree with this more. Division between organic and non-organic chemistry is arbitrary at best. But if we want to use the term, might as well use it's commonly accepted definition...
« Last Edit: April 07, 2009, 06:23:57 pm by Herra Tohtori »
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