organic compounds

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

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

The scent of trees and soil is full of organic compounds released by plants and "when you breathe them in, some molecules pass into the bloodstream."

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More than a decade passed before he tested the idea, using copper ions and organic compounds called nitriles to create well-ordered, spacious crystals.

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Turning wood waste into gas also generates a thick, black tar composed of volatile organic compounds — which are also common contaminants following wildfires.

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The organization also sampled 25 different polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, organic compounds that form when oil, wood or garbage burns.

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Recently, more than a dozen volatile organic compounds were detected and traced to one specific neighborhood during recent testing.

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