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03-11-2005, 03:16 PM
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You're basically repeating what I said.
...ditto on that. I only left out "monomer" since that's (essentially) the same as "molecule".

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Actually, in chemistry, organic compounds are considered to be anything with carbon-hydrogen bonds. That has been established after hundreds of years of argument on the subject, and I'm not about to accept anything else from some post-graduate crammer who's forgotten the majority of what he learned.
Agreed - I was just half asleep and couldn't word it the way I wanted. But you're right, of course, carbon-hydrogen and carbon-carbon bonds are the very backbone of organic chemistry. (Well, right apart from my gender Odd that with such a feminine name people still think I'm a bloke. *headscratch* "Forgotten everything" was a bit of an exaggeration, too - I just don't think I'll ever use it in my career, which is a shame - a good proportion of four years of learning I'll never need, unless I go into industry.)

I never had seamonkies. I never heard of them until I was in my late teens and never really felt inspired to try grow them - I couldn't keep my "pet" PLANT alive, so I don't think I'd do so well at sea-monkies.
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