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"In 1840, the Chemistry Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science asked for a report on organic chemistry. Their guest was Justus von Liebig. The introductory paragraph of his book on organic chemistry as applied to agriculture and physiology defined organic chemistry, and for many, the rest of the text would have had far-reaching consequences for agricultural practices and plant nutrition. The first paragraph states: "The object of organic chemistry is to discover the chemical conditions essential to life and to the perfect development of animals and vegetables,...