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organic compound

In physics, a material that contains carbon and hydrogen and usually other elements such as nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen. Organic compounds can be found in nature or they can be synthesized in the ...
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Dictionary of Organic Compounds: the Constitution and Physical and Chemical Properties of the Principal Carbon Compounds and their Derivatives, together with the Relevant ...

EARLY in the present century, it was a comparatively simple matter to ascertain whether a specific organic compound had been described in the literature, and, if so, to determine what was known about ...
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Dictionary of Organic Compounds

THE original edition of this first dictionary of the A kind in the English language was finished at the end of 1937, and it was then hoped to issue revised volumes at regular intervals, beginning in ...
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organic chemistry

The molecular science that deals primarily with materials constructed of carbon and hydrogen atoms. See organic compound. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...