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organic compounds

  1. The compounds containing carbon that are typically found in living systems.


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Notes

Generally, anything made from living systems, such as cloth, fuels, or wood, is said to be organic. Organic foods are grown with no fertilizer except the organic compounds found naturally in plants and animals.
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The organization also sampled 25 different polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, organic compounds that form when oil, wood or garbage burns.

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Recently, more than a dozen volatile organic compounds were detected and traced to one specific neighborhood during recent testing.

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As these batteries burn, they release a toxic cocktail of gases, including hydrogen fluoride, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds.

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Samples of the space rock, which were scooped up by a Nasa spacecraft and brought to Earth, contain a rich array of minerals and thousands of organic compounds.

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What’s dangerous is when the water is full of volatile organic compounds, Solomon said, because “when you boil the water, it releases benzene and other chemicals into your kitchen.â€

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