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Old Dec 12, 2016 | 3:44 pm
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Organic in a chemistry sense refers to carbon compounds (with some exceptions). So, anything made from anything that ever lived is organic. Are you wearing wool? Cotton? Linen? Leather? Are you carrying coffee? You, of course, are organic.

I was coming back from a diving vacation and everything in my camera bag was swabbed and then everything was taken apart and examined. The TSA person said that the swabs had revealed "unexpected organic results".
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