by Answers101 on March 4th, 2006

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How is organic and inorganic chemistry different?

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by Violin34 on March 28th, 2008
Organic chemistry deals with molecules and reactions that contain both hydrogen and carbon (hydrocarbons). Many materials that we we use in everyday life are organic, like cloth, plastic, fuels, soap, etc. Inorganic chemistry deals with molecules that do not have carbon and hydrogen. These include metals, some rocks and minerals, water, etc. Most inorganic principles also apply to organic chemistry.
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by ike9898 on March 13th, 2006
Organic chemistry is a division of chemistry that deals with molecules that have cabon atoms at the core of their structure. Inorganic chemistry covers everything else

From the name, you might think that organic chemistry only deals with chemicals from living things, but this really isn't the case. The production of many synthetic chemicals such as solvents and drugs involve organic chemistry. And, in many cases, inorganic chemistry is important to processes in living organisms. The formation of bone is one example.
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- The first part isn't entirely correct. CO2 has carbon in its core, but it is inorganic. Organic compounds must have carbon AND hydrogen.
  
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  by KevinW42 on March 28th, 2008
- not neccessarily
  
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  by dr james on March 29th, 2008
- organic compounds would include any compounds produced by organic compounds..breathing creates both o2 , h2o, and co2 as well as co etc.
  
  these are considered organic in organic chemistry.
  and co and co2 can also be inorganic
  
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  by dr james on March 29th, 2008
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by dr james on March 29th, 2008
its like the difference between rocks and animals

one is inorganic and one is organic

or one is biological and one is not

the difference is the study of non biological elements
h (hydrogen),c(carbon),o(oxygen),n(nitrogen) etc, are all the building blocks of organisms..most chemistry that have these and others in them would be organic

its a little more complex than that..but thats the simplest way to explain
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