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Organic chemistry and organic chemicals both essentially involve the study of carbon. While carbon is certainly a requirement for life as we know it, why do we refer to its study as 'organic' when many 'organic compounds' like methane have no bearing on the layman definition of 'organic'?

by /u/Frostiken in /r/askscience

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