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"Organic" has an older and still more widely encountered use, roughly, "relating to or derived from living organisms".
"organic" as pertaining to carbon chemistry is chemistry jargon that derived from the general use because of carbon's key role in biology.
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"Organic" has an older and still more widely encountered use, roughly, "relating to or derived from living organisms".
"organic" as pertaining to carbon chemistry is chemistry jargon that derived from the general use because of carbon's key role in biology.