organic compound
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organic compound
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Not only are organic compounds essential to living organisms, but the common belief until the 19th century was that only living organisms could produce them, whence the name. When it was shown in the early 1800s that they could also be produced in the laboratory, the old name was kept.
noun organic compounds
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Any compound containing carbon atoms covalently bound to other atoms.
Meteorites contain a wide range of organic compounds.
Similar: organic compound
Opposite: inorganic compound
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noun
Opposite: inorganic compound
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noun carbon containing covalent compound
| Español | compuesto orgánico |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 有機化合物 yūki kagōbutsu |
| 中文 | 有機化合物 /有机化合物 yǒujī huàhéwù |
| Português | composto orgânico |
| Français | composé organique |
| Deutsch | organische Verbindung |
| Italiano | composto organico |
| Ελληνικά | οργανική ένωση organikí énosi |
| Română | compus organic |
| Русский | органи́ческое соедине́ние organíčeskoje sojedinénije, органи́ческое вещество́ organíčeskoje veščestvó |
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