organic compounds

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1. The compounds containing carbon that are typically found in living systems.

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Generally, anything made from living systems, such as cloth, fuels, or wood, is said to be organic. Organic foods are grown with no fertilizer except the organic compounds found naturally in plants and animals.

Example Sentences

They tested for asbestos, toxic metals such as lead and potentially hazardous organic compounds often unleashed through combustion, called volatile organic compounds, or VOCs.

From Los Angeles Times

"What kinds of organic compounds might they be leaking out of their cells that could be feeding the rest of the food web with?"

From Science Daily

Some sites in these stages have been found to emit volatile organic compounds and other harmful pollutants.

From Science Daily

He continued, "The findings demonstrate that the interplay among inorganic and organic compounds played crucial roles in Earth's environmental changes, deepening our understanding of the evolution of Earth's oxygen and hence the life on it."

From Science Daily

It finds volatile organic compounds in the breath, detectable in cancer patients even at the early stages of disease, it said.

From BBC