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Oct 31, 2017

Basic statistics!

Explanation:

The permutations - or number of different ways in which you can link the few key elements of organic compounds make them almost infinite.

Compared to the limited ways in which inorganic elements can combine, organic molecules far exceed them simply with the carbon-hydrogen backbones, and much more when adding in the variations with oxygen and then many other individual elemental combinations.

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