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Are rocks organic compounds

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12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Some are definitely not. Others ... it kind of depends on your definition.

In chemistry, the word "organic" means "contains carbon".


With a caveat: a lot of chemists don't think of compounds where the only carbon is in a carbonate polyatomic ion as being "organic".


There are rocks that are carbonates. They do, therefore, contain carbon, and MIGHT be organic, if you consider carbonates organic.

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