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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
Fossilized stone and petrified wood was "once living" in some sense -- or if you want to get really extreme, carbon from an ancient race in another star system that's been fused into heavier elements all the way up to iron in a series of supernovas and finally got forged into your steel sword was "once living". But that may well not be true for magical correspondences, no matter how strictly "logical" it might be. Magic isn't physics or chemistry, and may well not be too impressed with convolutions of those modern definitions. "Once living" is a technical term only in the context of the magic system in the setting.
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The spell doesn't say "once living". It says "organic". While there is overlap in that Venn Diagram, it isn't complete by any stretch of the imagination.
And I doubt it means 'organic' in the sense that petrochems are 'organic'.