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Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover … Judge by Its Smell
Submitted by agrannas on November 18, 2009 – 1:01 am | No Comment
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover … Judge by Its Smell

A recently published article in the journal Analytical Chemistry discusses the distinct “aroma” produced by old books and aims to better describe – at the molecular level – that musty smell you encounter in the …