organic chemistry
noun
: a branch of chemistry that is concerned with carbon and especially carbon compounds which are found in living things
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Therefore, understanding the organic chemistry of the LMC can also help teach us about the organic chemistry of the early universe, in particular how soon the building blocks of life were able to form.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Faur, also the executive vice president of Buzz Aldrin Ventures, studied organic chemistry technology at Politehnica University Timisoara in Romania and spent seven years as a chemical engineer and university research assistant in her home country.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics.
—Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Harder than organic chemistry, and with more memorization.
—D. Graham Burnett, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2025
Even if the molecules didn’t originate from cells, the discovery remains important, because the large compounds suggest organic chemistry on Mars achieved higher complexity than what scientists had previously observed.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Most of the federal grants for science at universities support specific areas of science, such as particle physics, organic chemistry, microbiology or others.
—Filomena Nunes, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
However, a pivotal moment during an organic chemistry lecture led her to reassess her educational path.
—Julia Fomby, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Instead, researchers at IBM took the kind of AI program normally used to translate languages and applied it toward organic chemistry.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Dec. 2017
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Faur, also the executive vice president of Buzz Aldrin Ventures, studied organic chemistry technology at Politehnica University Timisoara in Romania and spent seven years as a chemical engineer and university research assistant in her home country.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics.
—Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Harder than organic chemistry, and with more memorization.
—D. Graham Burnett, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2025
Even if the molecules didn’t originate from cells, the discovery remains important, because the large compounds suggest organic chemistry on Mars achieved higher complexity than what scientists had previously observed.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Most of the federal grants for science at universities support specific areas of science, such as particle physics, organic chemistry, microbiology or others.
—Filomena Nunes, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
However, a pivotal moment during an organic chemistry lecture led her to reassess her educational path.
—Julia Fomby, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Instead, researchers at IBM took the kind of AI program normally used to translate languages and applied it toward organic chemistry.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Dec. 2017
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“Organic chemistry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/organic%20chemistry. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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