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Re: Divorce?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:24:18 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Trevyn Watson writes:
> Terry Prosper wrote:
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> > But LEGO!? That's not even organic!
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> I hate to be pedantic (and people hate me when I'm pedantic), but Lego
> bricks are made of ABS, aka Acetyl Butyl Styrene or
> Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene. The chemical formula is
> [(c8h8)k-(C3H3N)l-(C4H6)m]n. I don't know what a lot of that formula
> means, but I do know that C mean Carbon, and anything containing carbon
> (except cyanide and carbon dioxide) is by definition organic.
Just curious. Would this make Gasoline (or any fossile fuel) organic?
I suppose it would, since they could not easily exist on planets where there
had not been life at some point.
-H.
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| (...) I hate to be pedantic (and people hate me when I'm pedantic), but Lego bricks are made of ABS, aka Acetyl Butyl Styrene or Acrylonitrile-Butadi...e-Styrene. The chemical formula is [(c8h8)k-(C3H3N)l-(C4H6)m]n. I don't know what a lot of that (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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