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Acetone is an organic compound. Either somebody up there was distilling whiskey or biosynthesis was taking place wherever this slush came from right?.
by SCAQTony 11y ago
Acetone is an organic compound. Either somebody up there was distilling whiskey or biosynthesis was taking place wherever this slush came from right?.
- flyinghamster 11y agoNot necessarily. In chemistry, an organic compound is (with certain notable exceptions) any compound that contains carbon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound
- drallison 11y agoAcetone (systematically named propanone) is the organic compound with the formula (CH₃)₂CO. It is a colorless, volatile, flammable liquid, and is the simplest ketone. Wikipedia What were the "complex organic molecules" that were observed.
- throwaway_yy2Di 11y agoThis is from the paper, All the COSAC organics can be formed by UV irradiation and/or radiolysis of ices due to the incidence of galactic and solar cosmic rays: alcohols and carbonyls derived from CO and H2O ices (19), and amines and nitriles from CH4 and NH3 ices (20). Hydrolysis of nitriles produces amides, which are linked to isocyanates by isomerization. "Organic" only means "made of C,H,O,N", and doesn't imply biology. (But these are actually pre-biotic chemicals, which is why it's very interesting).