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Query:

Subject: Is carbon dioxide considered an organic or inorganic compound?

Posted by Travis J. Taylor
Grade level: 7-9
School: University of Maine
City: Orono State/Province: ME
Country: USA
Area of science: Biochemistry
Message:
A student asked me whether carbon dioxide is considered
an organic or inorganic compound.  It caught me for a blank.  
I wanted to tell him organic because it contains carbon, 
but what do you think?

Re: Is carbon dioxide considered an organic or inorganic compound?

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