organic chemistry
the branch of chemistry, originally limited to substances found only in living organisms, dealing with the compounds of carbon.
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How to use organic chemistry in a sentence
Human beings develop relationships through organic chemistry—through trust, risk investment.
Cold War Kids’ Nathan Willett: My Evangelical Struggle | Nathan Willett | September 22, 2021 | The Daily BeastThe chemical structures of these molecules will be a bit of mystery if you haven’t taken an organic chemistry class before.
Chemists think they’ve found a way to make opioids less addicting | Purbita Saha | July 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHe received a doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Colorado at Boulder four years later and was hired the same year to work in 3M’s research laboratory.
Spencer Silver, inventor who made the Post-it Note stick, dies at 80 | Emily Langer | May 13, 2021 | Washington PostAs observed by Reece Goiffon, pairs of cards connected via reflection were analogous to enantiomers in organic chemistry.
Can You Cut The Perfect Pancake? | Zach Wissner-Gross (riddlercolumn@gmail.com) | April 23, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightAll of chemistry—and even the very possibility of organic chemistry—depends on these numbers.
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A few days afterwards he found her studying a scientific book, "Outlines of organic chemistry."
Katharine Frensham | Beatrice HarradenI went up to my London rooms, where I spent seven weeks working out a few experiments in organic chemistry.
Avogadros law rounded out and completed the atomic theory, and to its application much of the advance in organic chemistry is due.
But the colossal progress of inorganic and organic chemistry is not less important.
organic chemistry has become simply the chemistry of carbon-compounds.
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British Dictionary definitions for organic chemistry
the branch of chemistry concerned with the compounds of carbon: originally confined to compounds produced by living organisms but now extended to include man-made substances based on carbon, such as plastics: Compare inorganic chemistry
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Scientific definitions for organic chemistry
The branch of chemistry that deals with carbon and organic compounds, especially hydrocarbons.
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Cultural definitions for organic chemistry
The branch of chemistry dealing with organic molecules (see also organic molecule).
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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