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General Science => General Science => Topic started by: bobby on 15/04/2003 15:34:19
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Dear All
I am currently researching the world of smell and would love to know of any books or websites that breakdown & describe what exactly we smell. For example a car exhaust contains carbon dioxide but also many other chemicals and gases. What do we smell on a flower as well as pollen or how many separate smells are there in a beefburger other than meat and fat. I would be interested to know how many separate odours there are in one subject.[8D]
bob
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Dear Bobby
great question. A good place to start would be by reading Peter Brennan's articles :
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/peterbrennancolumn2.htm
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/peterbrennancolumn.htm
and listen to his interview about smell on the naked scientists radio show:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/html/shows/2002.03.03.htm
If that leaves a few stones unturned and you want some more info, come back to us.
Best
TNS