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In context, "organic" means the material is carbon-based. "The rover team emphasized that finding organic matter doesn't mean it's found evidence of ancient lif
by sp332 4y ago
In context, "organic" means the material is carbon-based. "The rover team emphasized that finding organic matter doesn't mean it's found evidence of ancient life."
- simonblack 4y agoOnce upon a time, it was considered that all those strange carbon-based compounds could only be made by living organisms, hence the original name for carbon-based chemistry as 'Organic Chemistry'. It's well past time we put the term 'Organic Chemistry' in the Junk-heap of Science along with the non-existent 'Ether' and 'Spontaneous Generation of Life'.