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Vitalists Hate This Trick

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Vitalists Hate This Trick

The 19th century chemistry smackdown we never knew we needed! Berzelius, the OG vitalist, basically claimed "only living things can make organic compounds, it's magic!" Then Friedrich Wöhler strolls in like SpongeBob with his lab goggles and synthesizes urea from inorganic ammonium cyanate in 1828. Just casually DESTROYING the entire vitalism theory while probably sipping tea. It's like watching someone insist "humans can't fly" right before the Wright brothers take off. Science history's greatest "hold my beaker" moment!