How Does Smell Travel?

kneemos

If I light a Incense Stick in the kitchen for example I can smell it two rooms away almost immediately.
Does it travel like ripples in a pond from one molecule to another?

Spunge

im gonna guess: convection

uch

How can you be in the Kitchen and 2 rooms away at the same time ?

Ruu

Osmosis

Digital Solitude

Alternating Current

whiskeyman

smell travels as quickly as you start threads...






(v quick)

dont bother

You can only smell things because tiny particles and molecules of the substance go into your nose and stick to the inner lining. no mystery.

it doesnt travel, as such.

Big Nasty

Smells are particulate. When you smell the incense it's little particles of the incense releasing in to the air you can smell.

Similarly when you smell a fart you're breathing sh1t.

Delirium

kneemos wrote: »

If I light a Incense Stick in the kitchen for example I can smell it two rooms away almost immediately.
Does it travel like ripples in a pond from one molecule to another?

I'm more interested in how you mastered bi-location! :eek::D

steddyeddy

Brownian motion but what is smell? Smell is a sense. Molecules are what give us our sense of smell. A molecule binds to a receptor which activates Proteins called g-protein coupled receptors. These transfer the signal to the brain (really condensed version). A good question is how the molecules produce different smells? Some molecules are mirror images (enantiomers) of each other which have the same chemical formula but differing orientation of the atoms in space. Thalidomide was synthesised as two enantiomers, one causing deformities in the other didn't. It turns out that quantum effects in biology I.e the vibrational state of the molecule are what inform smell rather than simple lock and key chemistry.

Spunge

steddyeddy wrote: »

It turns out that quantum effects in biology I.e the vibrational state of the molecule are what inform smell rather than simple lock and key chemistry.

dammit

CINCLANTFLT

The whole "A fart is someone's **** particles in your nose" thing has always distributed me...

kneemos

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

The whole "A fart is someone's **** particles in your nose" thing has always distributed me...

Good to get around sure.

corner of hells

uch wrote: »

How can you be in the Kitchen and 2 rooms away at the same time ?

His split personality.

Kevin McCloud

Did the google not have any information op?

Whosthis

kneemos wrote: »

If I light a Incense Stick in the kitchen for example I can smell it two rooms away almost immediately.
Does it travel like ripples in a pond from one molecule to another?

Do your own homework, hippy!

kneemos

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Did the google not have any information op?

Oh yeah.

Google.

CINCLANTFLT

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

The whole "A fart is someone's **** particles in your nose" thing has always distributed me...

Well if you go that with the logic, it's only one more step to think of it as decomposing food or whatever it is.

libelula

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Did the google not have any information op?

Where's the fun in that?

*farts

Capt'n Midnight

there's diffusion and convection too

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Smell spreads when molecules move through air in a process known as diffusion.

Desolation Of Smug

The smellicules are dispersed by the atmo-spears and detected by schnoz-mosis.

Canis Lupus

Op do you get paid commission per new thread created or what?

Birneybau

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Did the google not have any information op?

This is his Google.

Anyway, I fart in all your general directions. Taste my poop. TASTE IT!

Ken.

kneemos wrote: »

If I light a Incense Stick in the kitchen for example I can smell it two rooms away almost immediately.
Does it travel like ripples in a pond from one molecule to another?

If you really think it travels that fast get someone to light an incense stick 2 rooms away and see how long it takes you to smell it. The person lighting it can't tell you they've lit it either.

Desolation Of Smug

Birneybau wrote: »

This is his Google.

Anyway, I fart in all your general directions. Taste my poop. TASTE IT!

UUgrh. Durty fecker.