if everything is matter what causes it to become organic and what is its energy output?

Answer 1

In chemistry, organic simply means any carbon containing compound. So gasoline, for example, is organic. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with life. There is no energy output associated with simply BEING organic. Any energy output would be due to chemical reactions, and there are zillions of different possible reactions with different energy output and zillions of others that do not output any energy, but use energy.

Answer 2

So carbonic acid is an organic compound? I'll have to investigate that one.

Living things are almost entirely comprised of six elements in compounds: Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfer, Phosphorous.
Carbon has 4 unpaired valence electrons, which allows it to form huge rings with multiple carbons. These are the building blocks of life.
Its energy output varies based on the number and strength of the bonds between atoms in the compounds, like in every compound.

Answer 3

Energy output, I do believe, is what happens when matter is destyoyed (contrary to popular belief this is possible). For example, a nuclear bomb. If you bombard a uranium-238 isotope with a neutron the neutron is destroyed and releases energy equal to its mass times the speed of light squared (sound familiar?) And the u-238 itself splits and releases more neutrons causing a chain reaction whichs gives us a really big boom. As far as I know the only ties that matter has with energy is Einsteins theory of relativity, otherwise matter has no relation to production of energy.

Answer 4

I don't understand the second question, but organic substances are those that contain carbon, with the exception of carbon dioxide. If it's got carbon and it ain't CO2, it's organic.