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Re: [lojban] Nomenclature of the periodic table
On 07/06/2016 02:39, Pierre Abbat wrote:
(Carbon is treated inconsistently: carbonic acid is treated as
inorganic, but the acid with one fewer oxygen is treated as organic
and called formic, not carbonous.)
Isn't formic acid considered organic because it has a direct
carbon-hydrogen bond, whereas carbonic acid has none and is thus
considered inorganic?
—Ilmen.
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