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Organic compound simply means that there are carbon-hydrogen bonds or carbon-carbon bonds in a compound.
The view that this requires "life" was a legitimate theory back in 1800s and was disproved in the late 1820s. (See the wiki link for more details)
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Organic compound simply means that there are carbon-hydrogen bonds or carbon-carbon bonds in a compound.
The view that this requires "life" was a legitimate theory back in 1800s and was disproved in the late 1820s. (See the wiki link for more details)