Environmental odour news

A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a quantum physics effect has received a boost, following experiments with human subjects. It challenges the notion that our sense of smell depends only on the shapes of molecules we sniff in the air. Instead, it suggests that the molecules' vibrations are responsible. A way to test it is with two molecules of the same shape, but with different vibrations. A  report in PLOS ONE  shows that humans can distinguish the two. Tantalizingly, the idea hints at quantum effects occurring in biological systems - an idea that is itself driving a new field of science, as the BBC feature article  Are birds hijacking quantum physics?  points out. But the theory - first put forward by Luca Turin, now of the Fleming Biomedical Research Sciences Centre in Greece - remains contested and divisive. The idea that molecules' shapes are the only link to their smell is well entrenched, but Dr Turin said there were holes in th...

The predictive power and galvanizing influence that theoretical models routinely enjoy in physics is only rarely replicated in biology. Lord Raleigh's theory of sound perception, Francis Crick's sequence and adapter hypotheses, and Hodgkin and Huxley's model of the electrical dynamics of neurons are a few  notable exceptions  that have gone on to spawn entire scientific industries. Although it is hard to find comparable mechanistic drama unfolding in our current century, Luca Turin's vibrational theory of olfaction has been a persistently fertile seed that has now ripened into a contentious fruit. One way to judge a theory is by how hard its detractors work to disembowel it. Last year, one group went so far as to express human and mouse olfactory receptors in an in-vitro kidney cell preparation to see if deuterated synthetic musks with altered vibration signatures gave different responses. That group, perhaps not surprisingly, didn't find a whole lot to  suppor...

One of our people in the midwest was contacted by a mystified Landfill manager  All was good , the analysis of the leachate was to spec.  then one day out of the blue .  High levels of a Diethyl Phthtalate was detected .   Phthalates are usually  plasticizes.  Why? Our bloke knew .  Masking agents contain Phthalates as fixatives.    

As we all know most of our products are odorless .  When the Sydney Olympics  where on we were doing work at pumping stations for Sydney Water , setting up spray systems at sewage pumping stations since there were high loads.  All good , but some bright spark suggested a stronger perfume mask smell because customer  of Sydney Water wanted it , so we supplied.  Complaints started coming in.  We changed product without telling anyone to our standard product (zero complaints)  no mask = ANOTEC  Strong sickly sweet masking agents .

Chemical composition of essential oil from   Eucalyptus   leaves Compounds (%) E.m E.a E.c E.le E.l E.s E.b α- pinene 1.27 6.96 4.08 5.85 26.35 5.81 2.16 1,8-cineol 83.59 60.01 79.18 77.76 49.07 80.75 81.29 Terpineol alpha - - 2.20 - 3.51 2.45 - Cymene P - 2.31 - - 2.42 - - Terpinene gamma - - - 2 1,58 - - Trans-Pinocarveol 3.40 8.92 2.07 3.23 1.59 1 4.49 Terpinyl acetate alpha - - 5.43 5.64 2.30 - globulol 3.61 3.74 - 1.42 1.01 - 1.81 Limonene - - - 1.33 - 3.32 - Pinacarvone 1.28 4.70 - 1.15 - - 3.93 Guaiene - 1.33 - - - - - Spathulenol - 1.15 - - - - - Mentha -1(7),8-Dien-2-ol trans P - - 1.09 - - - 1.03 Others 6.85 10.88 5.95 7.26 8.8 4.62 5.29

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