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Incidentally, why does nobody seem to wish to comment on the politeness of Eric's comment i.e. "Not sure you're really a chemist."?Given my name here, that's an accusation of dishonesty. Did I miss something or is that not rather impolite?
While there are blurred distinctions in places, water is not organic and therefore cannot be an organic anything. In particular it cannot be an organic solvent.There's no wriggle-room in that; it just is not an organic solvent. Never has been and never will be.When someone shows the the carbon atom in H2O I will accept that I was wrong.As I said, with Eric's definition, all solvents are organic solvents so the term is meaningless. Also his basis for considering it to be an organic solvent is bizarre unless he can show me some saturated hydrocarbons that "dissolve readily in water""The distinction between the two disciplines is far from absolute, and there is much overlap, most importantly in the sub-discipline of organometallic chemistry." About which, we were not talking.
Maybe the thread should have been placed under New Theories
Quote from: maffsolo on 21/10/2010 23:33:51Maybe the thread should have been placed under New TheoriesYou only had to ask.