Note 895

The, indicated as hybridization, adaptational and assimulative phenomenon of electronic states (s/p crossbreeds [sp orbitals] with different and varying contributions) may also play a very characteristic role in the organismic domain. The extreme, a complete hybrid, expressed by the fact that the overall effect corresponds to a minimum of potential energy, practically cannot be realized anymore already in simple organic compounds [i.e. simple carbon compounds], resulting in their acting always a bit as being unsaturated. In the very large organismic molecules, -- in which every constituent atom stands under multiple bonding influence, where the organogeneous atoms in themselves allow for an increase in diversity, where the anti-periodic and anti-crystalline order inhibits the internal leveling out of polarity, and [in the large organismic molecules] the physical state moreover supporting these effects, -- we have to do with such "abnormal" states of affairs (though not in the direction of the well-know unsaturateness of many organic compounds), that one may well call the living molecule an "immature hybrid".

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