Of notebooks and cucumbers
June 10th, 2008
This is something weird that I realized: for as long as I can remember, my chemistry laboratory notebook has always smelled like cucumbers.
I’m not sure why, but a Google search for “chemicals that smell like cucumbers kinda maybe told me why:
Morrison describes the smell of 2-nonenal as “pungent cucumbers.”
Apparently my chemistry lab notebook has old lady smell.
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