True, afaik compounds of C are called organic except for Carbides, the Carbon oxides and some of the cyanides (maybe there are even more exceptions)
I agree it is a pretty strange line to divide by. It's because historically the distinction was first made between compounds that come from living organisms and those that do not.
In post 59, vezokpiraka wrote:Yet CO2 is inorganic.
Even HCO3- is inorganic and it contains both carbon and hydrogen.
right, but the carbon and hydrogen aren't bonded. the proton goes onto one of the oxygens.
for something to be organic, it needs "C--H" bonds. i put that in quotes because things get kind of weird sometimes. for example, CCl4 is organic because the C--Cl bonds can be derived from C--H bonds and kind of behave like them (kind of).
...yeah, it's weird.
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In post 59, vezokpiraka wrote:Yet CO2 is inorganic.
Even HCO3- is inorganic and it contains both carbon and hydrogen.
right, but the carbon and hydrogen aren't bonded. the proton goes onto one of the oxygens.
for something to be organic, it needs "C--H" bonds. i put that in quotes because things get kind of weird sometimes. for example, CCl4 is organic because the C--Cl bonds can be derived from C--H bonds and kind of behave like them (kind of).
...yeah, it's weird.
I know this stuff. I was just pointing out that the distinction between organic and inorganic is weird and not very useful.
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