Another thing: pure HCN has H-C bond, but dissociates in water to H+ and CN-.
How does that affect its "organic-ness"? Texium - 14-7-2015 at 12:36
Really the whole organic/inorganic thing is blurred, and in some cases the distinction is based solely on historical tradition. Back in the olden days
before the famous synthesis of urea, it was thought that organic compounds (at that time the definition was anything made by living organisms) could
not be synthesized from inorganic substances. Thus, compounds such as carbonates and cyanides that had been obtained from mineral sources were still
considered inorganic, despite containing carbon, and to this day, are still usually considered to be.aga - 14-7-2015 at 12:52
It's an OrganicIn, aka a Chemical.
Bish, bosh. Sorted.
Edit:
It really does not matter how you classify it.
HCN is a chemical, and behaves as it does.
In the end, it's classification does not affect it's reactions nor it's other properties.
Some things never fit nicely into discrete compartments.
IOC IC EC all are just labels for the innocent.
[Edited on 14-7-2015 by aga]szuko03 - 15-7-2015 at 10:32
^ I agree with that for the most part. Classifying things is good for organization I suppose but its not really going to help you understand it. But
they do make you do it in Chem classes. Its silly but we would get a list of compounds and be told to classify them as organic or inorganic.
Also classifying allows for walls to be formed and those walls become hard to break. The biggest example of this is medical marijuana because the wall
of "illegal drug" was built it is hard to dismantle that wall of thought. paradigm shifts are hard even when they make complete sense.phlogiston - 16-7-2015 at 07:29
If you did not use any pesticides, fertilizers, hormones or antibiotics in manufacturing it, your HCN is organic.Metacelsus - 16-7-2015 at 08:04
Made from organic amygdalin?
"Organic" in the food sense seems silly to me. I support environmentally responsible farming practices, but precluding nearly all of modern
biotechnology really isn't necessary. Using fertilizer is fine; just don't use so much that the crops don't absorb it all so it washes into the lake,
causing an algae bloom.
