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Which properties of carbonates, hydrogencarbonates, oxides of carbons and carbides put them under the study if inorganic chemistry and not organic chemistry even though they are also carbon compounds??

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Organic chemistry is the branch of science to the study of carbon containing compounds - so all organic compounds contain carbon. But the converse is not true:
Some of the carbon containing compound are not studied under organic chemistry. This applies to the
CO2, CO, CN- , C22-, CO32-, HCO3-, etc.

The definition of organic compounds is probably better expressed as: carbon containing in which there is C-C and C-H covalent bond. Inorganic carbon compound may contain either C-H or C-C bonds, but not both. That is why ​CO2, CO, CN- , C22-, CO32-, HCO3-, etc. ar studied in inorganic chemistry.

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