of many animals. Before this discovery, chemists thought that intervention by a so-called life force was necessary for the synthesis of organic substances. Wohler's experiment broke down the barrier between inorganic and organic substances. Modern chemists consider organic compounds to be those containing carbon and one or more other elements, most often hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, or the halogens, but sometimes others as well. The consequences of the unique properties of carbon are manifest in the simplest class of organic compounds-the aliphatic, or straight-chain, hydrocarbons.

Compounds of hydroxyl include methyl alcohol, ethyl alcohol, formaldehyde, and ethanoic acid. Methyl alcohol is made either from the distillation of wood, or

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