Organic chemistry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the chemistry of compounds containing carbon (originally defined as the chemistry of substances produced by living organisms but now extended to substances synthesized artificially)

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  1. that which treats of the substances which from the structure of organized beings and their products, whether animal or vegetable; called also chemistry of the carbon compounds. There is no fundamental difference between organic and inorganic chemistry.
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  1. . See under Chemistry.

Webster 1913