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organic compound
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organic compound
compound derived from living material
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Organic compound
An organic compound is any member of a large class of gaseous, liquid, or solid chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon. For historical reasons discussed below, a few types of carbon-containing compounds, such as carbides, carbonates, simple oxides of carbon (such as CO and CO2), and cyanides are considered inorganic. The distinction between organic and inorganic carbon compounds, while "useful in organizing the vast subject of chemistry... is somewhat arbitrary".
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organic compound
Noun
1. any compound of carbon and another element or a radical
(hypernym) compound, chemical compound
(hyponym) aldehyde
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Organic compound
Molecule that contains atoms of the element carbon, usually combined with itself and with atoms of one or more other element such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine, or fluorine. See inorganic compound.
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organic (organic compound)
Compare with inorganic compound .Compounds that contain carbon chemically bound to hydrogen. They often contain other elements (particularly O, N, halogens, or S). Organic compounds were once thought to be produced only by living things. We now know that any organic compound can be synthesized in the laboratory (although this can be extremely difficult in practice!)
Organic chemistry is concerned with the compounds of carbon. Biochemistry is concerned with compounds of carbon that crawl. -Mike Adams
Organic chemistry is concerned with the compounds of carbon. Biochemistry is concerned with compounds of carbon that crawl. -Mike Adams
