If matter can’t be created out of nothing, isn’t technically everything made from natural materials? What makes something synthetic?
In: Chemistry
You pretty much have the gist of it.
“Natural” is mostly a bullshit marketing term that people who don’t know any better think is meaningful.
To speak of legal definitions something is natural if it is taken from something in nature and not chemically changed. So sodium bicarbonate that is mined from the earth is natural where as if you take sodium carbonate and preform a relatively simple reaction on it to make it into sodium bicarbonate then it would be synthetic.
In the end it’s the same thing though. Often the synthetic stuff can be more pure than natural stuff because it is made in a process that doesn’t produce byproducts like natural processes.
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