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What is the difference between organic and inorganic chemistry?

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Organic chemistry is defined as the study of carbon-containing compounds and inorganic chemistry is the study of the remaining subset of compounds other than organic compounds. However, there is overlap between the two fields.
Organic compounds will include things like the nucleic acids, found in DNA, lipids and fatty acids found in the cells of living organisms, proteins and enzymes that are necessary for cellular processes to take place, and more. Meanwhile, inorganic compounds include the salts, metals, and other elemental compounds.
There are few organic compounds that don't contain carbon-hydrogen bonds- carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) and urea [CO(NH2)2].

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