Chapter 40
Things I don’t know yet
What is scent made of?
We know many of the components of scent, for the most part being Volatile Organic Compounds, or VOCs. When a dog identifies a particular smell, we don’t know the exact makeup of the molecules he is smelling. How can a dog smell cancer and bombs and tell one dog apart from another? Each particular…
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