Do you know what nonliving carbon compounds are? Organic chemistry studies nonliving carbon compounds.
Oh so it is organic according to you ? How does carbon equate to carbon compounds in your mind ? Just curious.. ?
The universal pronoun: applied in those cases where one is unsure of the number (or superposition) of individuals. Multiple personality types, that sort of thing.
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"The subject of organic chemistry was wrongly taken by petroleum geologists long ago to mean chemistry of biologic origins. You can still have a book of organic chemistry that has nothing to do with organisms at all." -- Thomas Gold, 2002
Isn't that funny? That's exactly why people think we are "carbon based" even though we are actually hydrogen and oxygen (H2O) based.